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Those aren't false positives; they're results he hasn't yet inspected. I wrote a longer reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638062 https://news.
by mtlynch 6mo ago
Those aren't false positives; they're results he hasn't yet inspected.
I wrote a longer reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638062
- bethekidyouwant 6mo agosome of them certainly are…
- coldtea 6mo ago>Those aren't false positives; they're results he hasn't yet inspected. It's not a XOR
- Ukv 6mo agoThe article quote was being given as the supposed source for "Claude Code also found one thousand false positive bugs, which developers spent three months to rule out", so should substantiate that claim - which it doesn't. If the claim was instead just "a good portion of the hundreds more potential bugs it found might be false positives", then sure.
- tptacek 6mo agoYes it is. They're not not false positives until they're reported and consume maintainer time.
- lambdaone 6mo agoFalse positives can be eliminated mechanistically by testing if they actually work, in a sufficiently isolated automated test apparatus. The hard thing is reducing detected crashes to well-formulated test cases that help rather than hinder maintainers.