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Cthulhu_yesterday at 9:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can't have been much, as the Chrome project is 20+ years old and LLMs have only recently become a thing; they did not slacken their code review and testing practices with the advent of LLM code generators. And I doubt they do much development on the affected areas at the moment, they mention a 13 year old issue for example.

But it's an open source project, you can go and figure out whether your assertion is correct.


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goldenarmyesterday at 9:54 AM

The single 13yo issue is anecdata.

They obviously have the full git blame statistics but chose not to include them in the blog post, which is a bit concerning.

lbritoyesterday at 4:10 PM

>Can't have been much, as the Chrome project is 20+ years old and LLMs have only recently become a thing

That's not a great argument. GPT3.5 was launched over 4 years ago, so that's already significant compared to Chrome's age. LLMs notoriously also produce more verbose code than a human, so its not out of question that it might produce 5x more bugs on average given the same time frame.