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by energy123 4 hours ago
I'm no cyber expert, maybe one can weigh in.

Are there zero days that only a true genius can discover? Or can a smart-enough model, run over the codebase for enough time, discover them all?

Like as we get smarter and smarter models do we expect each new generation to keep finding vulnerabilities, or to plateaue?

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A large part of vulnerability analysis is just having the time to crunch through enough possibilities. Expertise and smarts definitely speed this up but there's a lot of just turning the crank until something falls out. Even a relatively dumb model with some good prompting will find vulnerabilities if you ask it to and give it the time and resources to do so.