The Calculator Discipline – AI-Assisted Disclosure Hallucinations (opens in new tab)

AI assistance has made source-code review cheap, and like every productivity multiplier in the history of engineering it has therefore made being wrong cheap. The open-source security community has spent the last eighteen months noticing the result: bug-bounty intake queues drowned in plausible-sounding but fabricated vulnerability reports, with the curl project's January 2026 closure of its HackerOne programme the headline example. The conversation so far has mostly been complaint. What is m...