AI is a mixed blessing for open source software . On the one hand, AI can help developers program faster and find bugs more quickly. On the other hand, maintainers are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of potentially serious bug reports. As Daniel Steinberg, founder and maintainer of the popular open source data transfer program cURL , recently said, The rate of incoming security reports is four to five times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025. For the first time,...
