IBM open-source security project Lightwell will use AI tools and over 20,000 engineers to help secure enterprise open-source software.
Remember, IBM is the company that fucked over CentOS when they acquired it, and then tried to block their forked OSs from getting updates.
IBM’s acquisitions over the last couple of decades have ended in sadness, so I wouldn’t trust that company to take out my trash, much less “secure enterprise open-source software”.
Lightwell will use AI tools and over 20,000 engineers
If the AI was useful for anything, why pair it with 20,000 engineers? It’s interesting how every “application” of AI involves teams of human experts just doing their thing while the AI “helps”.
As long as they’re working to commit fixes and not just file bug reports this sounds good. If it’s just another flood of possible bugs with no fixes it’s just another thorn for open source maintainers.
tl;dr: a new commercial product offering by ibm, sold to ‘enterprises’ to look at their own deployed code and maybe send fixes upstream
$5bn… so, one Claude Code run?
Lightwell…? Do they happen to have WoW players in that project? :D
Anyway, actually good use case for AI. Pattern matching is kind of its thing
