AI is far better at finding vulnerabilities than writing code, so software costs will rise
mgill25 · x · 2026-10-24
Amplifying @ponnappa's argument: the era of "good enough software built by good enough people" is over. The author expected AI to make software cheaper, but since AI is orders of magnitude more effective at finding vulnerabilities than at building good software, the real cost of software is going up — way up.
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