Veteran vuln researcher: agents will soon find zero-days by pointing at a source tree
teropa · x · 2026-10-22
Veteran security researcher tqbf argues in a long-form essay that AI coding agents will transform both the practice and economics of exploit development within months. Frontier model gains will come as a step function: substantial amounts of high-impact vulnerability research will happen simply by pointing an agent at a source tree and typing "find me zero days." He traces the history of vuln research from 1990s stack-overflow hunting to font-library exploitation, arguing AI is about to unlock this hidden knowledge at scale, with profound consequences for information security and the internet itself.
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