Anthropic pointed Claude Code at the #linux kernel source one file at a time, framed as a security puzzle. Found a heap overflow in NFS (Network File System) hiding since March 2003. Four more kernel bugs followed. 500+ validated vulnerabilities across open source in weeks.

Linux Foundation set aside $12.5M to help maintainers cope. Meanwhile, nobody could find one volunteer to maintain a Google Drive library for three and a half years. The bottleneck was never the bugs but the unpaid people.