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It's worth distinguishing between LLM generated bug-reports submitted by randos, and developers themselves using LLMs to look for bugs in their software.
My own experience, with my own code-bases, is that the LLM I use is extremely good at finding real flaws in my code. It'll also nitpick a lot, but it has has become better at triaging issues than it used to be, so that kind of thing is easy to ignore.
Because of that, having an LLM take a look at my code before I push it has become another QC step, along with running tests, linters, and formatters. The end result is higher quality software