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I can see how the post comes across that way. I may need to edit it to somehow be clearer about how I approached the workload development. I'll refer you to my other replies to comments for more information on my approach:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49278424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49278521

Also appreciate the nice words at the end :) I'm feeling a bit ganged up on.

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I do feel like you're being ganged up on as well. IMO this is a very cool thing that Antithesis is able to find and reproduce this bug in this specific subsystem with a relatively generic workload.

I guess what would have been an even more cool thing is "we ran some more general testing with Antithesis, and it found five other bugs". Have you thought along those lines or explored something like that? There have to be other, similar bugs lurking in SQLite :)

I’m sorry you’re feeling ganged up on, I thought it was a nice article and cool you were able to repro the bug with your tools.

Like some others have mentioned, one of my earliest thoughts was “how much of a hint was the LLM given about the bug?” I think if the prompt used was stated clearly/verbatim near the beginning of the article, that would probably dispel a good amount of the criticism.

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