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Message   LWN.net    All   [$] Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs   April 22, 2026
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The open-source world is currently awash in
reports of LLM-discovered bugs and vulnerabilities, which makes for a lot more
work for maintainers, but many of the current crop are being reported
responsibly with an eye toward minimizing that impact.  A recent report
on an effort to systematically find bugs in Python extensions
written in C has followed that approach.  Hobbyist Daniel Diniz used Claude
Code to find more than 500 bugs of various sorts across nearly a million
lines of code in 44 extensions; he has been working with maintainers to get
fixes upstream and his methodology serves as a great example of how to keep
the human in the loop-and the maintainers out of burnout-when employing LLMs.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1067234/
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