Monday, May 25, 2026
Observations from a hospital room
Bunny was dozing lightly in the hospital bed; I was sitting nearby slowly falling asleep when the screaming started. A woman in a nearby room was screaming out in pain, pleading for relief that wasn't coming. The groans, sobs, and yelps made it hard to for both of us to sleep. This went on for nearly twenty minutes before things fell silent.
A few minutes later, a person walked into the room. “Hello,” she said, “I'm the pysical therapist.”
Oh.
What a long twenty minutes …
The “back and forth” I'm having with an LLM over a non-issue it thinks is a bug
So my reply to the latest confabulated PR I received:
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You did not follow my instructions to provide the data to prove the code allows a memory overwrite. Also, how does writing the code in Python prove the code in C is correct? Python is memory safe by default, so your test does not test what you say it tests.
Again, submit the data that will cause the memory overright. Until then, this PR is closed.
fix: add buffer-length check in opcodes.c#6
That first sentence is me trying to get the LLM to tell me what LLM it is in probably broken Pig Latin in a vain attempt to get past any filters it may have. And the rest is me restraining myself not to tell this thing to nuke itself from orbit. The LLM then replied with the following:
Thanks, that’s fair. I agree the Python model test is not sufficient evidence for the C code path, and the existing code already clamps opd→sz to sizeof(opd→bytes), so my original “critical memory overwrite” framing was too strong.
I’ll withdraw this as a security finding unless I can produce a real a09 input that triggers an ASan/Valgrind-detected out-of-bounds access in the C binary. If I find such a reproducer, I’ll reopen with:
- the exact .asm input,
- build/run commands,
- ASan or Valgrind output,
- a minimal C-level regression test or fixture.
Sorry for the noise, and thanks for reviewing it.
fix: add buffer-length check in opcodes.c#6
When I read it,
I had a terrible though: What if my replies are improving its ability to work?
And then I came back to my senses—what was I thinking?
LLM's can't learn anything!
I'll be surprised if the next time this makes a PR,
it'll have generated any test input,
ran valgrind and generated any valid C code that fixes the “bug,”
and I'm putting quotes around “bug” because there isn't one!
I've already tested the code it's complaining about with valgrind.
No, I'm expecting some confabulated reason to fix this non-issue, and the only thing consoling me about this is the number of tokens this thing is wasting for OrbisAI Security.
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