depthfirst founders publish original 2024 vision doc predicting AI would rewrite vulnerability economics
andreamichi · x · 2026-10-30
The three founders of AI security startup depthfirst published the original vision document they wrote in June 2024 before founding the company. Their core thesis: no computer or device will be secure in a world of abundant intelligence, as security has always been fallible humans writing vulnerable software versus resource-constrained attackers.
- They predicted AI would fundamentally change the economics of vulnerability discovery and exploitation — a take that was not consensus among research and security people at the time
- 2.5 years later, cybersecurity has become one of the most important areas of AI development, and events largely tracked the document
- The thesis shaped their product line: code vulnerability discovery, supply-chain reachability, secrets leak prevention, agentic pentesting, and a dependency firewall
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