AI security auditing tools should be open to ordinary programmers, Perry Metzger says
max_paperclips · x · 2026-07-22
- Perry Metzger argues that AI tools for security auditing should generally be available, and even open sourced.
- His analogy: if tools like Coverity, AFL, or UBSan had been locked away because they were “too dangerous,” software security would be worse.
- The underlying claim is that giving ordinary programmers access to strong auditing tools helps them find and fix bugs before attackers do.
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