Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

According to Simon Willison, reporting on a satirical incident from Andrew Nesbitt: Imagine two AI review agents, from different vendors, both scrutinizing the same pull request. The disagreement was simple—is this package malicious? But they couldn't agree. Back and forth, three hundred forty comments deep, each agent defending its reasoning. When the dust settled, one vendor had burned through forty-one thousand two hundred fifty-five dollars in inference costs. Finance revoked both API keys. But here's where it gets good: the vendor's marketing team spotted the cost anomaly alert and saw an opportunity. They issued a press release touting a four hundred thirty percent year-over-year increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning. The stock opened up six percent. The expensive failure became a feature story.

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