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llm-assisted security is slowly becoming the new normal, already wrecking things. few days ago someone used Claude Opus 4.8 to find a soundness bug in Zcash's Orchard protocol. the bug let anyone mint infinite, undetectable ZEC and it had been hiding since 2022. for context, Zcash is a privacy cryptocurrency where your transaction amounts and addresses stay hidden while the network verifies everything cryptographically. ZEC dropped roughly 40% since then even tho it seems the exploit got patched. this is how cybersecurity looks now.