The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?

Everything coming from GNOME about software quality should be taken with a Strategic Petroleum Reserve of salt.

While other projects rewrite things in memory-safe ways, GNOME's response is to ask a chatbox if there are any memory vulnerabilities.

Hey does that mean they'll use "AI" to allow users to customize the desktop environment again?

why not have AI do more quality control?

> GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. No matter how much we try, GNOME developers will fail write secure code when using unsafe languages like C, C++, or Vala: it’s just too hard for even experienced developers to do properly.

Once I saw that I knew that this article was a ridiculous stack of bullshit. Gnome might have some bugs and shortcomings but now millions desktops are using Gnome based window manager for decade and the world didn't collapse yet.

And let's not forget the ridiculous assumption that you can't handle a software quality without using AI...

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The era of software quality has always been there like in projects like postfix. Gnome could reduce features and increase testing and auditing.

But let that not waste the opportunity to promote AI.

They should be using an automated AI agent to validate vulnerability reports. Have it pull up the code base, confirm the bug exists, try to reproduce, then update the ticket. You might even run another AI agent pass to clean up the text before humans look at it. AI writing quality improves a lot with multiple passes.