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On the radar: using a large-language model to insert thousands of automatically generated "security checks" into the OpenBSD kernel:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171810103406609&w=2

I'm sure that will be received well...
marc.info'AI-Driven Security Enhancements for OpenBSD Kernel' - MARC

@corbet "the fact that whole netinet/netinet6 10000+ checks were added with no human intervention and produced a working, arguably safer kernel, is surprising to me.

Beware that at the current state, it might not be actually safer as the checks may actually introduce new bugs."

That's... a hell of a pair of sentences.

Jeff Forcier

@luis_in_brief @corbet oh god, for some reason I assumed it was Theo or some actual core OBSD member posting about this 😅 looks like it's just some overzealous rando?