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A rogue talent from the Core Rulebook:
Slow Reactions (Ex): Opponents damaged by the rogue's sneak attack can't make attacks of opportunity for 1 round.
An advanced rogue talent from Ultimate Combat:
Confounding Blades (Ex): When a rogue with this talent hits a creature with a melee weapon that deals sneak attack damage, her target cannot make attacks of opportunity until the beginning of her next turn.
What gives? Confounding blades is actually worse than slow reactions, despite being an advanced talent, because its use is limited to melee.
Is there any developer or author commentary on this, or an errata, or anything?
Yep, it's a mistake.
Ultimate Magic, Combat and the APG were cobbled together from the work of many different authors. Judging by the quality, I'd like to say that some of them weren't very familiar with the Pathfinder system.
Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the content was rushed throughout development because it's easy to find mistakes like this strewn between all three books. Just ignore them, houserule them and move on.