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These existing tools (spotbugs, findings, sonarqube, null away, checker framework, pmd, etc) provide detection but not resolution. Resolution thru LLM is what Uber proposes.

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Resolution of the kind of resource leaks that SonarQube finds is usually the work of a few seconds. And it should be integrated into the developer workflow in such a way that those bugs are found and fixed before the code even gets checked in. In other words, if that code is even making it into a repo where GenAI can find and fix it then you have deeper engineering process problems. Fix the root cause rather than patching around them with more tools.

And once SonarQube flags a resource leak to a developer, a competent developer would learn from that and never make the same mistake again.

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