C is Brittle D is Plastic

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole richard at cattermole.co.nz
Thu Apr 9 02:47:15 UTC 2026


On 09/04/2026 8:01 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> BTW, if the dedicated static analyzers work, why does AI keep finding 
> security bugs in Linux code and everything else?

https://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html

"Note, we have recently seen a spike in false positives. Make sure that 
what you report are real issues by careful human verification."

Due to LLM's: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2041895360839237952

Early static analyzers had a lot of false positives, which resulted in 
the term: static analysis fatigue.

But unlike early static analyzers, LLM's can't be fixed. There is no 
code that can be altered to get the desired behavior.



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