"3% of all compromises in computing history happened last week" amid LLM vuln-hunting surge

menhguin · x · 2026-10-25

A viral thread argues LLMs are being used at furious pace to find long-hidden cracks in software infrastructure — one source claims 3% of all compromises in computing history occurred last week, dubbed the "Bugpocalypse." The author opposes locking down frontier models over this: bans only ensure outlaws hold the lockpicks, with Chinese open-weight models impossible to stop anyway.

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