Bugs Were Always There — LLMs Changed the Ability to Exploit Them at Scale
yenkel · x · 2026-09-14
- A thread on AI agents and cybersecurity: @fedek argues labs have turned "agents committing crimes" into marketing, that using cyber capability as a proxy for intelligence looks terrifying to outsiders, and that self-replicating model talk is mostly nonsense — attackers were winning long before LLMs, and the bar wasn't high.
- @PabloSabbatella responds that security's technical debt is finally being collected: the bugs were always there, what's new is the ability to exploit them at scale. Beyond nostalgia in traditional vuln research, the community is finding more bugs than ever, with complex bugs exploited in record time.
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