What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #66 – S3E18 Turning AI into the Ultimate Open Source Maintainer Power Tool with Michael Winser
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Summary
In this episode of What’s in the SOSS? , host CRob welcomes back open source security champion Michael Winser to reflect on Alpha-Omega’s spectacular milestone of surpassing $20 million in security grants. Michael breaks down how their mission has evolved from simply chasing bugs to acting as a catalyst for sustainable, long-term security culture across critical projects.
The two dive deep into the unsustainable economics of package repositories—the “app stores” of software development —and address how a massive partnership with frontier AI model providers is aiming to flip the script on AI. Instead of fueling endless, low-context vulnerability “slop,” Alpha-Omega is working to put AI assists directly into the hands of maintainers as their ultimate defensive power tool.