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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
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As far as anyone is aware, disaster has been averted: The hack was discovered by cybersecurity researchers who reported it to the PHP Foundation, and a patch was released before any bad actors got their hands on the exploit.
Key facts
- But it is improving a lot, so the top 0.1 percent [of experts] can get a lot more stuff done, and also below the 0.1 percent now will be able to go there without understanding all the nitty-gritty details
- AI is forcing them to pay off 40 years of technical debt
- One of the things we’re witnessing now is that all the legacy software that was written by humans over the last 40 years is being exposed,” says Matt Suiche, AI security research lead
- PHP, which originally stood for “personal home page,” is a programming language created back in 1994 and largely used by legacy sites
Summary
AI is forcing them to pay off 40 years of technical debt. In late October, a slew of major cybersecurity issues came to light. “One of the things we’re witnessing now is that all the legacy software that was written by humans over the last 40 years is being exposed,” says Matt Suiche, AI security research lead at the cybersecurity startup Tolmo. PHP, which originally stood for “personal home page,” is a programming language created back in 1994 and largely used by legacy sites. The bug underlying the PHP2Shell vulnerability was reported to the PHP Foundation as far back as 2024.