In physics, the three-body problem describes a system where three objects interact gravitationally in ways that are fundamentally unpredictable. You can model any two of them. The moment you add the third, the math breaks. Small changes in initial conditions produce wildly different outcomes. The system becomes chaotic.
Software security has its own three-body problem. Three forces are converging right now, and the industry is modeling each one independently while ignoring what happens when they interact.
Force one: AI is generating code with 2.74 times more vulnerabilities than human-written code, and it is being shipped at unprecedented volume.
Force two: supply chain attacks grew 1,300% in three years, and the infrastructure the internet runs on is maintained by burned-out volunteers.
Force three: the security talent pipeline is collapsing. Junior hiring is down 73%. Security teams are being cut. 88% of organizations experienced a significant incident due to skills shortages.
