alt Hacker NewsClaude is perfectly capable of fixing most vulnerabilities; if that's what maintainers want, they can just ask for it. If the concern is cost, Anthropic offers a Claude for OSS program.
The reason Anthropic isn't proactively sending patches is, I suspect, that those patches would not be welcomed, because trust in the models isn't currently at the point where maintainers are willing to merge them without human review, which takes approximately as much effort as writing the patches themselves. You can imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth about "slop PRs" and "extractive contributions" that'd be all over HN.
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> If the concern is cost, Anthropic offers a Claude for OSS program.
thanks! It turns out that I am apparently qualifying for it and I was unaware
lets see whether Anthropic agrees
Anthropic's oss-scanner includes patches. We've received a batch and I'm working on some of it.
A good amount of the patches is straight garbage. It's not helped by the fact that a good amount (20~30%, maybe more) of the issues is also junk themselves.
I'll hopefully be able to share numbers (or data) after we're done with the batch.