{"id":16214,"date":"2026-04-10T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16214"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:06:12","slug":"ai-is-transforming-software-security-in-realtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16214","title":{"rendered":"AI is transforming software security in realtime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a few months ago in 2025, the curl team was getting <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty\/\">inundated with an explosion of AI slop bug reports<\/a>. They went from a real issue rate of about 15% to less than 5% of reports being real issues. Many were almost nonsensical submissions by AI &#8211; in attempts to gather bug bounties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That has all changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Stenberg is now reporting that they&#8217;re getting really good security reports &#8211; almost all done with the help of AI. It&#8217;s gotten so many, they&#8217;re having trouble keeping up. Combine that with what is coming with systems like <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16212\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16212\">Claude Mythos that are finding thousands of zero day bugs in every OS and browser<\/a>, and the software world is likely about to see a massive software security upheaval that will leave the development world dazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revolution that is coming at all levels of software is clearly starting to rival what happened in the dot-com era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7446667043380076545\" height=\"1012\" width=\"504\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" title=\"Embedded post\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few months ago in 2025, the curl team was getting inundated with an explosion of AI slop bug reports. They went from a real issue rate of about 15% to less than 5% of reports being real issues. Many were almost nonsensical submissions by AI &#8211; in attempts to gather bug bounties. That has all changed. Daniel Stenberg is now reporting that they&#8217;re getting really good security reports &#8211; almost all done with the help of AI. It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16214\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4dw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16217,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214\/revisions\/16217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}