High-Quality Chaos: On finding flaws in code with AI with Daniel Stenberg (curl)
High-Quality Chaos: On finding flaws in code with AI
🗓️ Date & Time: 28th of May 2026 14.00-15.00
📍 Location: Salongen @ KTH Library
💬 Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, talks about how AI tools are transforming security vulnerability reporting in open source.
Abstract:
Back in the Artisanal era, it took significant amounts of skill, time and effort to find security problems in software. With the rise of powerful AI tools used for this purpose, we have transitioned through a period with aggressive hallucinations into a time of high-volume, high-quality security reports flooding all Open Source projects. A vulnapocalypse.
Based on his experiences in the curl project, one of the world's most widely used software components, Daniel describes the current reality, backed by real-world numbers. This isn't a corporate pitch or a sanitized marketing deck. Just the cold truth, viewed from one Open Source developer's point of view. Daniel offers a candid look at the signal-to-noise crisis facing modern software developers.
"No company mumbo-jumbo. No sales speak. Just the reality of Open Source security from a person living it."
Biography: Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish Internet protocol expert and developer who has participated in and worked with Open Source for thirty years. Perhaps most known for being the founder and lead developer of the curl project, one of the world's most widely used software components. He participates in protocol development within the IETF and has authored books on curl, Open Source, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and is a frequent public speaker. Daniel is the president of the European Open Source Academy and a three-time medal receiver for his Open Source work. Employed by wolfSSL.
This is an event hosted by the IEEE Sweden computer society chapter https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/559728
You can join remotely at https://meet.google.com/ehw-iinw-vpn