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We are in the middle of a bug apocalypse. With AI, finding serious software bugs has become fast and cheap, for attackers and defenders alike. In October a critical PHP bug made governments, ports and hospitals take their own websites offline while they patched.I'm not a developer, yet I found a bug in the Sparrow Bitcoin wallet that the experts had missed. What that says about who builds now, how to attack your own code with AI before someone else does, how I cut my blog's attack surface by moving from WordPress to plain HTML, and why DeFi, the best honeypot for hackers, may come out of this safer than closed legacy software.Collaborations: info@web3intravel.comCHAPTERS0:00 Intro0:20 The bug apocalypse0:51 Both sides got new weapons1:55 The PHP bug3:13 What it means for us3:34 The bottleneck moved5:11 My bug in a Bitcoin wallet6:06 From how to what8:26 Your software is in the war9:24 Attack your own code with AI10:38 Software without bugs is impossible11:35 Fewer doors: the attack surface12:45 My blog: from WordPress to pure HTML15:55 One door left17:22 When non-developers send fixes18:54 Crypto: the best honeypot20:33 Closed software isn't safe either20:54 Immutable contracts21:19 Web3 in Travel's end game?21:39 What to do now