{
 "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
 "attribution": "Fide AI, Agentic Cyber Explorer",
 "url": "https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/events/google-ai-powered-patching-2024/",
 "asOf": "2026-09-26",
 "id": "google-ai-powered-patching-2024",
 "date": "2024-01-31",
 "datePrecision": "day",
 "title": "Google reports Gemini-based pipeline fixed 15% of sanitizer bugs found in its unit tests",
 "lane": "defense",
 "kind": "paper",
 "summary": "A Google Security Engineering technical report describes an automated pipeline that reproduces sanitizer-detected bugs in C/C++, Java and Go, prompts an LLM for fixes, tests them, and surfaces the best candidate for human review. Google reports that Gemini fixed 15% of sanitizer bugs discovered during unit tests, resulting in hundreds of patches.",
 "whyItMatters": "It is an early production-scale data point on LLM-generated security fixes with human review, a model later extended by CodeMender.",
 "actors": [
  "google"
 ],
 "topics": [
  "vulnerability-repair"
 ],
 "atlas": [
  "human-approver"
 ],
 "artifacts": [
  "gemini"
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://research.google/pubs/ai-powered-patching-the-future-of-automated-vulnerability-fixes/",
   "publisher": "Google Research",
   "title": "AI-powered patching: the future of automated vulnerability fixes",
   "date": "2024-01-31",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/pubtools/pdf/4fd3441fe40bb74e3f94f5203a17399af07b115c.pdf",
   "publisher": "Google",
   "title": "AI-powered patching: the future of automated vulnerability fixes (PDF)",
   "date": "2024-01-31",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  }
 ],
 "keyFacts": [
  {
   "fact": "Gemini successfully fixed 15% of sanitizer bugs discovered during unit tests, resulting in hundreds of bugs patched.",
   "locator": "Abstract"
  },
  {
   "fact": "The pipeline has five steps: find, isolate and reproduce, generate fixes with LLMs, test fixes, and surface the best fix for human review.",
   "locator": "Section 'An LLM-powered pipeline'"
  }
 ],
 "significance": 3,
 "fideQuestions": [
  "FID-076",
  "FID-088"
 ],
 "methods": [
  "automated-patching"
 ],
 "review": "assistant-drafted",
 "addedOn": "2026-09-25"
}