I'm a CTO who was awake for 48 hours because of the PHP crisis. October feels like the month of hell for tech.

Nick Woodhead had to scramble in response to a security flaw that threatened the majority of the world's websites. Courtesy of Nick Woodhead Nick Woodhead said he went 48 hours without sleep while helping patch a major website vulnerability. The CTO said that with security problems piling up, October feels like "the month of hell" for tech. Because AI makes it easier to find and exploit security gaps, Woodhead expects more disruption. This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Nick Woodhead, founder of the AI company GPTree and chief technology officer at Rothco and Compubox. He