Alpin Yukseloglu

Yeah, I mean, in the long term, it's now increasingly clear that AI is going to be extremely, extremely good for crypto, especially on the security front, because...

We're going to get to a world where because everything is much more secure, the ceiling on the industry is much higher.

So our partner, Matt, talks about how if you have a grocery store that's run by mom and pop, because they can't see everything in the store, there's a limit to how big they can get.

But the moment you add security cameras in, so security has this effect of increasing the capacity, the carrying capacity of an industry.

I think in the short term, it's up to us because the models are getting extremely good, like strikingly good.

When we started working on EVM Bench, which is a benchmark that consists entirely of fund draining critical bugs around six months ago, the models were able to find less than 20% of the bugs, like around 12 to 13%.

And just over the course of while we were working on the benchmark, this number went up to over 50%.

And in between when I drafted the launch tweet and when I had to actually hit send with the release of 5.3 Codex, it jumped up to over 70%.

So these things are just growing at a blistering pace.

And it's very important that we position the industry in a way that we can defensively protect against attacks.

But in the long term, I think it massively increases the carrying capacity of crypto.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's really hard to say when we approach super intelligence levels.

I do think until we hit the like right now, the models are quite good, but they're not better than the best human auditors.

So we already have existed in crypto under this threat model of extremely intelligent adversarial actors that are constantly trying to break all of our software that with all the money in it.

So in that sense, like crypto is already quite hardened.

But it's just really hard to know when we talk about sort of a technology inflecting into superintelligence.

This is very similar to how encoding capabilities were increasing mostly linearly over the last several years.

And in December last year, they crossed some threshold where they were better than sort of the median engineer.

And a lot of stuff clicked for everyone and it started becoming this aha moment and this sort of oh crap moment.

And I think something very similar will probably happen with security where right now it's like increasing pretty rapidly at still at a linear clip, but it's not as good as the best human auditors yet.