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AI can find zero-days but still can’t reliably write secure code

In recent months, LLMs have gone from flooding open-source projects and bug bounty programs with questionable security reports that wasted developers’ time, to routinely finding zero-day flaws that humans and traditional security audit…

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Recent months have seen large language models shift from producing low‑quality security reports that burden developers to reliably uncovering zero‑day vulnerabilities missed by humans and traditional tools. While these models excel at finding and exploiting flaws, they lag in defensive capabilities, often leaving basic security issues in the code they generate.

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