Comment by simonw

Comment by simonw 2 days ago

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You're posting this comment on a thread attached to an article where Filippo Valsorda - a noted cryptography expert - used these tools to track down gnarly bugs in Go cryptography code.

tptacek 2 days ago

They're also using "AI SAST tools", which: I would not expect anything branded as a "SAST" tool to find interesting bugs. SAST is a term of art for "pattern matching to a grocery list of specific bugs".

  • bgwalter 2 days ago

    ZeroPath for example brands itself as "AI" SAST. I agree that these tools do not find anything interesting.