The 'antifragile internet' case: AI agents slash attack costs toward zero
rebeccakaden · x · 2026-10-23
The quoted long-read argues we need an "Antifragile Internet" for the agentic era, citing the recent PHP, Railway, eMudhra, and LiteLLM hacks as evidence of structural fragility:
- Offense: agents as a weapon. AI finds and exploits bugs at unprecedented scale; the cost of attack asymptotes to zero, and decades of legacy code built on "security by obscurity" no longer holds.
- Defense: agents as a target. AI-generated code is often bug-prone, and agents themselves become new attack surfaces.
- The reposter adds that we're in the early stages of a rebuild toward an anti-fragile internet.
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