AI Won't Replace Smart Contract Auditors — But Auditors Using AI Will Replace Those Who Don't

Every few months, someone on Twitter declares that AI will make smart contract auditors obsolete. I have been building spectr-ai — an AI-powered smart contract analysis tool — for the past several months, and I can tell you definitively: that take is wrong. But so is the opposite claim that AI is useless for security work. The truth is more nuanced, more interesting, and has real implications for anyone building or auditing smart contracts. What AI Actually Does Well AI excels at pattern recogni