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I Built a Smart Contract Auditing Tool Because AI Was Embarrassing Me
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I Built a Smart Contract Auditing Tool Because AI Was Embarrassing Me

DEV Community·Astrophel·6 months ago
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I used to be a smart contract security researcher.

Key word: used to .

Not because I quit, because I got honest with myself about what I was actually doing. I was using AI to write my audit reports. Finding vulnerabilities, sure, but letting AI carry the write-up. Felt efficient. Felt smart even.

Then reality started hitting different.

Duplicates . Over and over. Someone else submitted the same finding faster. Or worse: AI flagged the two most obvious things in the contract and called it a day. It wasn’t auditing. It was skimming. AI was skimming my clients' contracts and I was putting my name on it.

That bothered me more than I expected.

So I asked a different question. Not "how do I audit faster", but what if the whole process was built differently from scratch? Cheap, real, impossible to fake. Something a security researcher could trust and a developer could actually afford.

That’s where Limbo started. It’s not finished.…

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