You can't bug fix your way out of the vulnpocalypse

245 · Alex Gaynor · July 15, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses the challenges faced by security engineers in estimating the number of vulnerabilities in a codebase. It highlights the difficulty in accounting for undiscovered vulnerabilities and critiques the common assumption that the discovery rate of vulnerabilities will remain constant over time.