Bugpocalypse, or reporting bugs in an AI age
Bugpocalypse, or reporting bugs in an AI age 23 Sep 2026 — by Alex Bennée “…perfect software doesn’t exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.” - Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer, Chapter 4 In June this year we updated our security process to make the reporting of security bugs broadly the same procedure as reporting other bugs. The only difference is asking reporters to set GitLab’s confidential flag to limit its visibility to project members.
- ▪Bugpocalypse, or reporting bugs in an AI age 23 Sep 2026 — by Alex Bennée “…perfect software doesn’t exist.
- ▪No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.” - Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer, Chapter 4 In June this year we updated our security process to make the reporting of security bugs broadly the
- ▪The only difference is asking reporters to set GitLab’s confidential flag to limit its visibility to project members.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://www.qemu.org/2026/09/23/bugs/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:45:28 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T13:55:27.643Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T13:55:27.643Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Bugpocalypse, or reporting bugs in an AI age 23 Sep 2026 — by Alex Bennée “…perfect software doesn’t exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.” - Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer, Chapter 4 In June this year we updated our security process to make the reporting of security bugs broadly the same procedure as reporting other bugs. The only difference is asking reporters to set GitLab’s confidential flag to limit its visibility to project members. The previous email address routed through a volunteer had become unsustainable as the rate of reports rose. While more people can see the reports now, there is at least a chance to distribute the triage work across more of the projects volunteers.
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