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Agents vs. agents: how we triage HackerOne reports for $2 each, 85% as well as a human

medelastic_securityPublished 2026-08-04

<p>Large language models (LLMs) made it trivially cheap to generate vulnerability reports. In the first half of 2026 alone, our <a href="https://hackerone.com/elastic">HackerOne</a> bug bounty program received over 1,390 reports, more than the full-year totals for 2024 and 2025 combined. Every one of them still requires human attention, so we decided to put agents against agents. If AI can generat

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Original source: https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/ai-vulnerability-triage-bug-bounty-hackerone