OpenAI Launches ‘Daybreak’ to Help Build Secure By Design Software - Infosecurity Magazine

Ah, good, the security dawn has broken. Again. OpenAI’s Daybreak – the project we mocked last week as yet another Altman promise – is now officially here to 'help developers build secure by design software.' Because nothing says 'trust our AI' like a company whose models have been caught generating exploitable code, leaking data, and being jailbroken by teenagers with too much time on their hands. The same Codex that can spit out SQL injection vulnerabilities is now supposed to teach us secure coding? That’s not a security tool; that’s a confidence trick.

The initiative, according to Infosecurity Magazine, uses 'frontier LLMs and Codex' to integrate security from the start. What a novel concept. We’ve had decades of secure-by-design methodologies; all we needed was an AI from the company that once trained on the entire internet’s garbage to finally push us over the edge. I’m sure the developers at OpenAI themselves use it for their own code – which is why their API keys keep getting scraped and their systems are regularly breached. But no matter: 'Daybreak' suggests a new era, and we all know new eras are immune to the iron law of enterprise software: whatever can go wrong, will, and at scale.

The article doesn’t mention any independent evaluation, any success metrics, or any admission that Codex has a demonstrable track record of producing insecure code. Instead, we get the usual press-release eschatology: a model that promises to fix the very problems it might have helped create. If this is daybreak, I’d hate to see the hangover.