AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem

Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project’s maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that made the crash go away still failed those maintainer tests. If you’re thinking about letting an AI tool patch vulnerabilities for you, this is the number to look at. Many…

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