It's our birthday today! 🎂
Almanax turns 1 today! 1 year ago, Maxwell and I began a journey to stop hacks. He had spent years in cybersecurity and helped secure Coinbase, one of the biggest crypto exchange in the world. I had spent 4 years investigating billion-dollar hacks. Code vulnerabilities were often a major attack vector. We saw that code security was mainly done through third-party audits every 6-12 months, or through underperforming static analysis tools. Compounding on top of that, coding assistant tools like Cursor and Github Copilot were changing the way engineers write code. We asked ourselves, “What happens when companies produce 100x the number of lines of code they used to? How are security teams supposed to handle that?”. We needed a Cursor for Security teams. We started Almanax to build an AI Security Engineer because we believe LLMs will change security the same way they’re changing software engineering. On to year 2.
