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AI is forcing developers to pay off decades of technical debt
Original: AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
IEEE Spectrum reports that AI tools are exposing long-standing flaws in legacy software, illustrated by the php2shell vulnerability class, where decades-old insecure coding patterns in PHP applications let attackers turn input into shell commands. The argument is that AI-assisted discovery and exploitation of such weaknesses is compounding an accumulated security debt from 40 years of software practices, forcing organizations to finally remediate old code.
Why now: AI tools are newly surfacing and weaponizing vulnerabilities buried in old codebases, renewing debate over legacy software security.
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