About whether LLM triage could fix the flood of AI-generated bug reports on HackerOne.
Has this happened?
Yes 90 (71%)Not sure 27 (21%)No 10 (8%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether LLM triage could fix the flood of AI-generated bug reports on HackerOne.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
An LLM finds a dubious bug, an LLM turns it into a convincing report, and now the proposed solution is to have an LLM triage it? There are a lot of turtles holding up this approach and the circular logic seems hard to miss.
Automated triage can filter obvious spam, which was already fast and easy for humans to do. The hard part is independently reproducing a plausible finding and assessing its actual impact. If LLMs could already do that reliably, then the slop report problem wouldn't exist in the first place.