The unreasonable effectiveness of VEX in NixOS
- Sun, Oct 11, 2026 7-minute read Triggered by the flood of LLM-assisted vulnerability reports this year, we have heard a lot about the struggles that maintainers of popular (open-source) projects face to cope with them.
- Most projects have slowed down feature development to focus on vulnerability triage; others are still looking for ways to combat the flood itself.
- While we tend to hear many reports from maintainers, we have heard less about the people on the other side of the process: SysAdmins, SREs and AppSec teams are equally struggling with the same flood.
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- Sun, Oct 11, 2026 7-minute read Triggered by the flood of LLM-assisted vulnerability reports this year, we have heard a lot about the struggles that maintainers of popular (open-source) projects face to cope with them.
- Most projects have slowed down feature development to focus on vulnerability triage; others are still looking for ways to combat the flood itself.
- While we tend to hear many reports from maintainers, we have heard less about the people on the other side of the process: SysAdmins, SREs and AppSec teams are equally struggling with the same flood.
Sources: Kammel