Re: AI

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Given that AI, especially since this PHP vulnerability thing, is all the talk now, have our sources been fed to an AI yet?

What is it that you want "fed to an AI" to mean?

Several AI-assisted patches have been submitted, so a few people have
used AI on the sources to diagnose bugs they encountered, but there
isn't any "hey, look at this" that will do some unspecified digestion
of the entire source.  Despite what Sam Altman et al. would like
everyone to believe, none of these AI models are "smarter" than (for
example) Ray Andrews.  They're *lots faster* than you and they can
make a hundred copies of themselves and they've got a vast amount of
sample code and stackexchange conversations and probably the entire
archives of the zsh mailing lists (and every other public mailing list
or usenet thread for the past 30 years) to refer to more easily than
you can, and some prepared instructions for how to do code analysis,
but ultimately they still have to be told what to do with all that.