Pattern: AI-Accelerated Exploit Development Emerging — From Weeks to Hours with Human-in-the-Loop

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The Chrome V8 exploit chain ($2,283, ~20 hours) demonstrates a new category: AI as exploit development accelerator. The model couldn't operate autonomously but compressed weeks of manual work into hours under expert guidance. Combined with Anthropic's own safety card showing Opus 4.7's improved performance on cybersecurity evals, this creates a dual-use tension: the same capability that makes security research faster also lowers the barrier for offensive tooling.