I can't comment on Chrome bugs, but I can comment on Safari bugs. According to a search of the WebKit Bugzilla, I'm the most prolific filer of web inspector bugs outside of the WebKit team itself.

Recently I noticed an unusually high number of web inspector bugs fixed by one longtime WebKit engineer, and I suspected AI assistance, though the commit messages include no disclosure of this. Nonetheless, the increase in volume was quite dramatic.

The other day, an update to Safari Technology Preview was released, and I attempted to verify whether a couple of my bugs were indeed fixed. However, it was impossible for me to verify, because the latest version of Safari Technology Preview introduced a new web inspector bug that totally broke the features I was testing.

Thus, I remain unimpressed.

Without a doubt, LLMs have demonstrable skills and can produce code much faster than humans. I never thought that producing code fast was wise, though, even before LLMs arrived. For many years I've criticized software development based on management-driven release schedules, where developers are forced to pump out code regardless of quality, regardless of whether it's ready. Your boss may not like it, but code is done when it's done, not when your boss says it has to be done. If software complexity were predictable and reproducible, then indeed management could replace engineers with automation, but that's not how it works in reality.

Back to Chrome, the browser is notorious for continually adding invasive new "features" to the web that nobody wants except advertisers. I wonder how many Chrome bugs were the result of Google push push pushing all of this new crap on users over the years?