About an AI agent startup that automatically finds bugs in pull requests.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About an AI agent startup that automatically finds bugs in pull requests.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Ton of work already being done on this. I am a Vulnerability Researcher @ MIT and I know of a few efforts, just at my lab alone, being worked on. So far nearly everything I have seen seems to do nothing but report false positives. They are missing bugs a fuzzer could have found in minutes. I will be impressed when it finds high severity/exploitable bugs. I think we are a bit too far from that if its achievable though. On the flip side LLMs have been very useful reverse engineering binaries. Binary Ninja w/ Sidekick (their LLM plugin) can recover and name data structures quite well. It saves a ton of time. Also does a decent job providing high level overviews of code...