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

Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org
Thu Apr 16 11:13:47 EDT 2026


V. Alex Brennen wrote: 
> A few weeks ago, I tried to figure out about what it would cost to do a good agent based audit on your average opensource C project on github. the numbers I seemed to come up with where around a few hundreds dollars per project (depending on the size and type of auditing and using an older model with a batching discount). That's certainly tractable for most opensource maintainers... not really a huge amount of money.
>

The average open source project makes zero bucks a month.

The average highly popular, used-everywhere open source project
makes about $8 a month*.

The tail is long.


-dsr-

* I made this up, but that should be acceptable to everyone who uses
LLMs without rigorously checking every result.


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