[Discuss] Is open source more secure at the current level of AI?

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:59:15 +0000
"V. Alex Brennen" <vab at cryptnet.net> wrote:

> Basically, it is all priced by tokens (which are about 75% of a word
> for English text and a little less clear for say C Code). So, I just
> ran `wc` a few different ways to try and estimate. For the stuff I
> look at that was mostly crypto related code and robotics code it
> seems to work out to around $350USD to $500USD mostly depending on
> the size of the repo.

Which is approximately one billion percent more than most open source
projects have to spend. You need to be a well-funded organization --
such as Google, Black Duck, Red Hat or JFrog -- to afford to do this
kind of scanning on any kind of routine basis.

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