Hacker News users debate whether bug discovery or review bottleneck is the real problem
2Oct 30 9:56 PM · 12d ago · 1 post · 1 comment · 1 source · development 2 of 4
Commenters questioned whether the delay stems from a flood of legitimate, high-quality bug reports or low-quality ones that maintainers must triage. Some praised LLM-assisted testing as a net positive; others noted that discovery speed does not automatically translate to faster fixes when the same small group of maintainers must validate and review each report.
“I guess the real challenge is figuring out how to scale verification, cause discovery isn't the bottleneck anymore.”
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Robert HaasPostgreSQL major contributor, Databricks Sr. Staff Engineer
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I guess the real challenge is figuring out how to scale verification, cause discovery isn't the bottleneck anymore. Generating more bug reports doesn't necessarily translate into faster fixes if the same small group of maintainers still have to validate the reports, review fixes, etc.