If this is primarily fixing old issues, over time we should see a sharp drop off and then even fewer security fixes then before due to fewer being introduced, due to being caught by AI upfront.
On the other hand, if AI is introducing more issues than it is resolving, we’ll see the baseline of security issues being found permanently addressed.
how many are introduced by new ai code?
Not sure about AI specifically, but the number of new bugs seems to be going down in new releases:
See: https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/
If this is primarily fixing old issues, over time we should see a sharp drop off and then even fewer security fixes then before due to fewer being introduced, due to being caught by AI upfront.
On the other hand, if AI is introducing more issues than it is resolving, we’ll see the baseline of security issues being found permanently addressed.