Episode 184: 750+ Bugs in 2026 with 0xMoose (Ads Dawson)

Episode 184: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we’re joined by Ads Dawson (0xMoose) to talk about his skyrocketing report velocity, as well as how he builds and manages his hackbot.

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Today’s Guest: substack.com/@0xmoose

====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======
How to use Claude Code for Bug Bounty: find fast, validate manually
yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/llm-series-claude

====== Resources ======
Signal Over Noise: AI Agents and the Operator Moat
0xmoose.substack.com/p/signal-over-noise-ai-ag…

FBDL Goes Agentic: AI Agents Can Now Build Your Test Environments
bugbounty.meta.com/blog/fbdl-goes-agentic

====== Timestamps ======
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:11:01) Satisfaction for hackbot finds
(00:19:31) Hackbot Mechanics and Tech Debt
(00:33:31) Sitting in the Bottleneck & Analyzing hacking sessions with Frontier models
(00:44:35) FBDL Goes Agentic, Noise Reduction, & Hill Climbing
(01:05:45) Hackbot Load Distribution