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Alone at Midnight, I Sent an AI to Fix the Software the World Runs On

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At 12:03 AM on September 6, I filed a pull request against Google's snappy compression library. The bug inside it was almost absurd. Compress a 4 GiB file with any release build, and the header it wrote swore the file held 0 bytes. A machine I built called Jeffy Loop had found it that night. I was…

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    Alone at Midnight, I Sent an AI to Fix the Software the World Runs On

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