Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await
With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times – especially if your job is keeping systems patched and up to date. Microsoft has gone from 60-90 Windows security fixes per month last year to a record of 600+ this July. Oracle and Linux are following the same path, and they are very much not alone. The good news is that a lot of bad things are getting fixed very quickly. The bad news is that patches can bring side effects of their own.
There are two mechanisms at work, both driven by the source of and solution to all our woes, AI. The first is that the appropriate LLMs and their humans have got very good at bug hunting. Like demon archaeologists, they've started thrashing...
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