# The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program

DevFeed: [The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-wonders-of-ai-we-are-retiring-our-bug-bounty-program-6048.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of-ai>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2026-05-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Bug Bounty](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bugbounty.md>), [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [bug-bounty](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug-bounty.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

Turso is retiring its $1,000 data-corruption bug bounty after an influx of low-quality pull requests overwhelmed maintainers. The article explains the tension between keeping an open contribution model and protecting review capacity, while outlining Turso's extensive testing practices and their limits.

## Source excerpt

For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.