signalLobsters2026-10-04
The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
GNOME developers admit that humans are bad at writing secure code in unsafe languages like C and C++. The author argues that AI vulnerability scanning has improved dramatically and is now essential for maintaining quality software in 2026, despite the burden of verbose or occasionally incorrect AI-generated reports. Projects that ban AI-generated content are urged to reconsider, as most vulnerability reports now come from AI.
- for who
- GNOME maintainers and open source software developers
- what changes
- They must accept and handle AI-generated vulnerability reports as a necessary part of development, rather than banning them.
- to do
- Adopt AI vulnerability scanning for projects and develop workflows to filter and review the resulting reports.
key points
- GNOME uses unsafe languages, leading to frequent security mistakes
- AI vulnerability reports have greatly improved in quality by 2026
- Banning AI content in issue reports is discouraged by the author
#ai vulnerability scanning#open source software#gnome
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