The Constant Eyes: Linus's Law Collapses to a Constant

The “many” in “many eyes” collapsed to a constant. When vulnerability discovery runs through a handful of frontier models, the number of human reviewers no longer determines security coverage. A single security team with access to frontier models and compute can run all the same analysis against a codebase that a federated team of five thousand individuals could. Five thousand people running Claude is indistinguishable from one team running five thousand sessions: the “many eyes” advantage reduces to compute cost. The bottleneck moved from “how many people are looking” to “how capable is the model.” Open source did not get less secure. It lost the security premium that justified the exposure.