u/uwais_ish · Reddit

Three weeks to build an AI security scanner. The scanner was the easy part. Shipped RedFlag this month. Breakdown of where the time actually went, because it was nothing like I estimated. Stack: Next.js 16, Auth.js v5, MongoDB, Stripe, OpenAI. Deployed on Vercel. What I thought would be hard: getting an LLM to find real vulnerabilities. What was actually hard: getting it to stop finding fake ones. First working version flagged 200+ issues on a clean repo. Every one plausible, most of th