The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerable crash out of it. It also got a pile of confident, well-written findings that were not bugs at all. Ethereum Foundation developers used AI agents to hunt for bugs in the network’s gossipsub messaging system, uncovering a crash vulnerability that could take validator nodes offline and has since been fixed as CVE-2026-34219. The experiment showed that most of the work involved si…
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