kolliden · Nov 5, 2026
Keep the deadline, make the finders fix it
3 reasons3 sources
What this position proposes
The deadline stays, but companies that report bugs at scale with AI also have to supply tested patches or pay for the work of fixing them.
Reasons
- 1.
Finding bugs has far outrun fixing them, so the bottleneck is the fixing, not the deadline.[1]
- 2.
A company that can find a bug with AI in minutes is also the one best placed to write and test the fix.
Unsourced
- 3.
Trillion-dollar companies rely on volunteer code like FFmpeg, so dumping bug reports on its volunteers shifts their costs onto unpaid people.[1]
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