Given these types of security bugs that are being found left and right, I reckon there's going to be an uptick in hiring of software engineers to fix them.

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SkyPuncher a day ago | parent | next [-]

I strongly doubt that. The fixes for most of these are trivial to the point it’s almost automated.

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gspr a day ago | parent | next [-]

The resulting mechanical code change might be trivial. The bugs themselves are often decidedly not.

You're essentially saying that swallowing a pill is trivial, so therefore pharmaceutical engineering is.

	▲	SkyPuncher 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For most of these bugs, they occur in a 3rd party software thats easily upgraded. I’m saying patching is easy because the pill is delivered to you.

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aussieguy1234 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

There is a push for that, but the fixes (often as little as a one line Dockerfile change in some cases) still have to be tested and verified by a real engineer.

Otherwise everywhere would have patched already with AI.

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Incipient a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I suspect a lot of organisations are already on automated AI detect-patch-redeploy loops for a lot of these types of issues.