Auditing in the age of (good enough) AI
However, these posts tend to focus on agentic code review, which is just one aspect of how we use AI in our security reviews. We want to give a different perspective: before code review even starts, agents now allow us to build custom tooling and formal models that improve the quality and depth of our reviews.We recently reviewed the Miden VM, a new zero-knowledge VM with its own custom assembly language and almost no developer tooling. To prepare, we spent six months having our agents build an LSP server, a decompiler, a static analysis engine, and a Lean model of the VM executor from scratch.
- ▪However, these posts tend to focus on agentic code review, which is just one aspect of how we use AI in our security reviews.
- ▪We want to give a different perspective: before code review even starts, agents now allow us to build custom tooling and formal models that improve the quality and depth of our reviews.We recently reviewed the Miden VM, a new zero-knowledge
- ▪To prepare, we spent six months having our agents build an LSP server, a decompiler, a static analysis engine, and a Lean model of the VM executor from scratch.
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Auditing in the age of (good enough) AIFredrik DahlgrenSeptember 18, 2026cryptography, zero-knowledge, static-analysis, aiPage contentAuditing the Miden zkVMBuilding all the tools!Finding all the bugs!But what if there are no bugs?Why we couldn’t have done this two years agoSecurity firms have published numerous blog posts describing how they pointed their agent harness at a codebase and found dozens of bugs (we’re one of them). However, these posts tend to focus on agentic code review, which is just one aspect of how we use AI in our security reviews.
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