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curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer Sharing

January 24, 2026·16 min·1 clip

Curl shuts down its bug bounty program due to AI-generated garbage, revealing how incentives can wreck security pipelines.

This episode covers Curl shutting down its bug bounty program due to AI-generated spam, AWS improving RDS blue-green deployments with faster switchovers, and ECR introducing cross-repository layer sharing to reduce costs. It also includes lightning-round tools and insights on managing human factors in reliability during incidents.

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