Jhaddix: AI-Powered Bug Bounty Hunters Are the Cutting Edge — Don't Kill Your Program Now
rez0__ · x · 2026-10-31
Well-known security researcher Jhaddix (HackerOne) reiterates: this is not the time to stop your bug bounty program. His argument is that bounty hunters armed with AI sit on the cutting edge of what AI can find — companies should let them loose and patch before bad actors discover the same bugs. rez0 shared it noting the timing is apt.
The post makes a practical point about AI security: the crowdsourced community converts frontier model capabilities into real vulnerability discoveries faster than anyone, so treat AI-powered hunters as your first line of defense rather than cutting programs.
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