AI Can Copy Any App Now. 40 Years of Protection, Gone | EP 40

Cyber Security Diaries from StationX · Sep 10, 2026 · 11m

AI can now copy any app. It reads compiled code as easily as it writes it, and 5 types of software business cannot survive that. This is the list, and the one-sentence test that tells you in 30 seconds whether yours is next.

Everyone is warning that AI will kill software by writing it cheaply. The quiet threat is that AI can now take a compiled binary and reconstruct the source, so any software whose only protection was its code is exposed. In this episode: what Anthropic's Mythos model proved, the 5 business models it breaks, and the test that shows whether your product, your employer or…