Inside the Top 1%: Engineering Tenzai’s AI Hacker to Compete with Elite Humans
Across six platforms, Tenzai's AI hacker achieved scores placing it within the top 1% of participants, outperforming more than 125,000 human competitors.
Across six platforms, Tenzai's AI hacker achieved scores placing it within the top 1% of participants, outperforming more than 125,000 human competitors.
Bottom line: You cannot secure modern applications by reviewing code alone. Many vulnerabilities only emerge in production systems - in the interactions between services, identity boundaries, cloud configurations, and in runtime behavior under pressure and focused attacks. At Tenzai, we focus on active validation, testing real systems in realistic environments
Internal applications are dangerous precisely because they’re trusted by default. Even strong security programs have blind spots - and AI changes what’s possible to see.
A security benchmark of popular AI coding agents—Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Replit, and Devin—found 69 vulnerabilities across 15 apps. Every agent shipped vulnerable code: broken auth, SSRF, missing controls, and more. Here’s what broke—and why it matters.