Comment by powvans
15 hours ago
I spend well over that of my employers money on pentesting every year. I’m absolutely certain Claude could perform as good or better a job using what’s available today.
It had crossed my mind that an AI agent pentester would be an interesting product to build. Once again though, the labs are just going to build it because it’s a thin thin wrapper.
Beyond existing software with vulnerabilities, the really important aspect of this for Anthropic et al is that the gigatons of code that are being generated every day needs to be secured.
There are quite a few such startups already out there. Results are mixed so far. Though I believe they get much better over the coming months and years.
AWS has one as a managed service.