Archive - The Verification Gap

Death of Security by Obscurity

I should feel very scared right now.

3 hrs ago • Leonid Bugaev

Source of truth: Code, Spec, or Requirement?

When code becomes easy to produce, the hard part is remembering what we meant.

May 14 • Leonid Bugaev

Trust Is the Bottleneck

AI can write specs, code, tests, and docs. If all of them agree on the wrong intent, green CI isn’t enough.

May 5 • Leonid Bugaev

April 2026

I Had Near 100% Test Coverage. It Didn’t Matter.

You cannot test for what you never described.

Apr 29 • Leonid Bugaev

AI Writes Your Code. Nobody Verifies the Intent.

AI made implementation faster, but it did not solve trust. In both solo projects and regulated enterprise systems, the real bottleneck is still…

Apr 23 • Leonid Bugaev

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