The AI built a fuzzer for a sync service, then spent 30 hours fixing its own bugs

Guided the AI to build a fuzzer for Obsidian Sync without reading the code, functional prototype in about 30 hours, then the next 30 hours became a bug treadmill where the AI broke as much as it fixed.

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How it works

He guides the AI to build the fuzzer
A working prototype lands in about 30 hours
The next 30 hours become a treadmill of the fuzzer's own bugs

Why it’s worth knowing

The tool for finding bugs needed as much debugging as the target.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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