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dgellowyesterday at 9:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not at all. I’m considering that the amount of vulnerable software in the wild is very, very large, with most organizations not managing their systems properly. Imagine all the small to medium size companies that do not have budgets for a dedicated, talented security team. And all the software that will never be patched. We are at the beginning of the exponential


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saghmtoday at 5:37 AM

> I’m considering that the amount of vulnerable software in the wild is very, very large

I'd imagine this set is very similar to just "the set of software on the world". Even before the AI stuff, it was a pretty good bet at any given software had some vulnerability; it was just a question of how easy to was to find it.

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bottlepalmtoday at 12:40 AM

It makes you think will everything need to be rewritten from the ground up - potentially by AI itself, or AI having a very heavy hand in validating all of it.

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