Episode

Time to Exploit is Negative: AI Broke the Patch Cycle | Dan Lorenc

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Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering
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Aug 19, 2026
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Summary

Dan Lorenc created Sigstore at Google and now runs Chainguard, whose Athena coalition processed more than 40,000 AI-discovered security findings in a single month. He explains why the average time to exploit has gone negative, and why patching speed, not discovery, now decides who wins.