Introducing Patch the Planet
Summary: Trail of Bits' Patch the Planet initiative paired its engineers with open-source maintainers and frontier models like GPT-5.5-Cyber, producing in its first week hundreds of discovered bugs, 64 pull requests, and 51 issues across 19 projects including cURL, Sigstore, the Go project, Python, and RustCrypto. Thirty-seven of those pull requests are already merged, and the effort added tests, fuzzing harnesses, CI security scanning, and supply-chain tooling alongside bug fixes.
What you should know: The source states that without explicit guidance, models default to rating everything as critical, and that the expensive part of security work has moved from finding bugs to confirming, triaging, patching, and disclosing them - the work that floods of AI-generated reports threaten to bury for already-stretched maintainers.
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