A new breed of analyzers
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Daniel Stenberg shares how AI-powered code analyzers discovered over 400 potential bugs in curl, including legitimate security vulnerabilities. Tools like Google's Big Sleep and ZeroPath identified issues that traditional analyzers missed by scanning all code paths without requiring builds. The curl team fixed approximately 50 bugs from the initial reports, with many more under review. These AI tools represent an evolutionary step in code analysis, finding memory leaks, protocol violations, and logic errors that existed undetected for years, though they don't fundamentally change the development process.
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The magnitude of thingsIt started with sleepkrb5-ftpZeroPathAt three there is a patternA shift in the wind25% somethingA minor tsunamiAll codeA few examplesMore evolution than revolutionEthical and moral decisionsStarting from a decent stateAIxCCGoing forward3 Comments
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