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title:

AI-Powered Scanning Launches the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security

date: 2026-05-15
tags: [#news, #devops ]
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The rise of LLM-powered coding agents is causing a massive surge in automated vulnerability scanning against open-source repositories. This trend is overwhelming maintainers with a higher volume of legitimate but often minor security reports, fundamentally changing the economics of security research. While this deep-mining of code flaws improves software in the long run, it forces a shift in how projects manage public security disclosures.