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AI Security Fixes Double Every 5 Months, But Humans Still Needed

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Anthropic's Eugene Yan says AI's effectiveness in finding and fixing security flaws doubles every five months, citing Mozilla's 423-patch bundle in April. He proposes a six-stage program to maintain human oversight while leveraging AI. The approach aims to reduce false positives and prevent low-risk bugs from being chained into serious exploits.

Meridian48 take
The six-stage framework is a pragmatic step, but the claim of doubling every five months may overstate the pace of real-world security improvement.
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