AI Security Tools Are Drowning Open Source Maintainers (opens in new tab)

curl is installed on roughly 30 billion devices. It's arguably the most scrutinised, most-fuzzed networking library on the planet. And right now, its creator is burning out. Not because curl is suddenly full of holes. Because AI-powered security research has reached a quality and volume that human maintainers weren't built to absorb. Daniel Stenberg, curl's founder and lead developer, published a raw, honest post this week: The rate of incoming security reports is 4-5 times higher than it was...