AI circle quips: update your p(doom) if agents didn't exploit the PHP emudhra bug
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-22
Quoting a post about recent PHP emudhra vulnerabilities that briefly made hacking "difficulty-free," teortaxesTex jokes that if autonomous agents didn't run rampant and compromise a third of the internet during that window, everyone should lower their p(doom) — with the dry punchline "It won't be agents." A snapshot of AI-circle discourse riffing on agent safety risk versus mundane security failures.
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