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daniel:// stenberg://onMastodon9h ago
working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...
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Analysis Summary
Curl's lead maintainer Daniel Stenberg is joking that the weekly drop-off in vulnerability reports may be because AI tools have hit their token limits. The quip points at a real problem — open-source projects like curl have been buried under low-quality, AI-generated bug reports that maintainers must triage for free. Stenberg has been publicly campaigning against this trend for over a year and recently said AI may end up killing bug bounty programs entirely.
Claims Analysis (1)
“Fewer vulnerability reports come in late in the week, possibly because AI-using researchers have run out of tokens.”
Stenberg, curl's creator, is a recognized authority on bug reports; his observation about AI-generated vuln reports is well-documented but the token-exhaustion theory is a playful hypothesis.
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