AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures — And Vibe Coders Are About to Get Caught in the Middle

Short summary

AI has collapsed the cost of both finding vulnerabilities and weaponizing them, turning security research from an artisanal craft into industrial output. This disrupts disclosure and bounty cultures; your dependencies now face faster bug-bombing than maintainers can patch, and exploit windows have collapsed from weeks to just hours. Ship safely with three defenses: automated dependency monitoring with 7-day CVE SLAs, locked supply chains, and pre-commit security linting.

• •AI-assisted fuzzing and exploit development have industrialized vulnerability discovery and weaponization, collapsing the economics of security research
• •CVE-to-exploit windows have collapsed from weeks to hours; 90-day disclosure and bounty culture assumptions are obsolete
• •Three implementable defenses: daily dependency monitoring with 7-day patch SLA, committed lockfiles with pinned base images, and pre-commit security linting

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