Agents Aren't Using Cyber Magic, They're Exploiting Legacy Bugs
max_paperclips · x · 2026-08-10
In response to the recent hype around "agents hacking us," a security expert argues that agents haven't discovered some forbidden cyber magic.
The real issue is that the industry has spent thirty years shipping buggy software because developers didn’t know how to write better code, lacked the time to test it properly, and fixing vulnerabilities was rarely rewarded. AI is simply exposing long-standing engineering debt.
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