Comment on A Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday for June 2026 by Yurgi Stepanov

In reply to Artem.

I was replying in regards to patch management, which ironically is one od those things AI will most likely take over quite soon, with some degree of appropriateness (which is unfortunate, as this used to be a favourite task of many system administrators for decades, when it meant a chance to do other things while working (just as builds that used to take a long time in IDEs such as Visual Studio and the like were somewhat good to deal with small distracting tasks in the nineties)).

Clearly many bugs are found accidentally, not solely as a result of auditing (whomever or whatever you consider responsible for doing that). Clearly only people with advanced knowledge of the software are going to have any appropriateness in creating patches for things like operating systems vulnerabilities.

There will always be differences between scientists and technicians. With AI such a burden now to the future of employment, I would be curious to see which will wind up the technicians and which the scientists -- salaried employees or things people anthropomorphize. Honestly neither seem safe soon. How much control and power do you really want to allow either? I used to be in favour of open source, but it is being mined so much I have realised closed source is safer for most things (I mean to the general public, not amongst "friends"). Especially given how much ease is now involved in appearing to be far more skilled than many practitioners are on any side of vulnerability research and management and language models. Of course, YMMV.