Cristophe Pettis stands athwart History:
Lately, the PostgreSQL’s bug-report mailing list has been receiving a large number of AI-generated bug reports. Often, these come in flurries of 10-15 bugs, each from the same email address.
These bug reports are of, shall we say, highly variable quality.
Click through for a breakdown of several of these bug reports and the waste of time they embody. I think Cristophe makes a great point: the problem isn’t the language model itself. The problem is the human who clicks a few buttons, automates firing off e-mails, and says “I’m doing my part!”