The Era of AI-Led Vulnerability Research With Tom Ptacek

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/