About this episode

Dennis interviews Tom Ptacek about AI's impact on vulnerability research and the future of security.

Dennis sits down with Tom Ptacek of Fly.io, a veteran security researcher, founder, and observer of the vulnerability landscape, to talk about the recent wave of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploit development, specifically from the use of frontier models such as Claude Mythos. Tom has strong opinions on what's coming and how human researchers and defenders need to respond. Tom's post : https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/

People in this episode

Host: Dennis

Guest: Tom Ptacek

Topics covered

• AI-assisted vulnerability discovery
• exploit development
• vulnerability landscape
• security research
• human researchers
• defenders response

Keywords

• AI
• vulnerability research
• exploit development
• security
• Claude Mythos
• Tom Ptacek
• Fly.io

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fly.io, sockpuppet.org

Books & works: Claude Mythos

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