Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

In a TechCrunch Equity podcast discussion, the hosts examined a widespread PHP vulnerability that forced website owners to patch immediately or take sites offline, with Sean O'Kane calling it "a real reckoning moment" showing that at the bone level the internet is "held together with glue and dreams." The panel noted that widespread access to LLMs and AI agents will make finding such vulnerabilities easier, while the specific flaws were found by human researchers, and Kirsten Korosec raised concerns about link rot and larger risks to banks and data privacy.