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His agent, mid-task on something else, found a decade-old security hole everyone missed

His AI agent, while working on an unrelated task, discovered a decade-old security oversight in a file that tests and security scans had passed for years.

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  1. His AI agent, while working on an unrelated task
  2. Discovers a decade-old security oversight in a file that tests and security scans had passed for years

Why it’s worth knowing

Incidental findings are the dividend of agents that actually read the code.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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