Halvar Flake: AI made competent code auditing cheap — expect a wave of long-buried bugs
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-21
Renowned security researcher Halvar Flake warns that the next few months will bring frequent discoveries of long-standing bugs, because competent code auditing has become cheap and abundant. He says this carries several consequences (thread truncated).
A landmark take on AI's impact on security: when auditing shifts from scarce expert resource to near-free commodity, decades of accumulated vulnerabilities in existing software will surface in bulk.
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