>and that among those varied independent scans, different people will catch what others miss.

My point was more that very few brains were looking deeply at the long tail of open source code/projects (other than the maintainers of the code themselves); and for the marquee projects that did get proportionally more varied eyeballs (e.g. postgres), it seems even that level of attention was insufficient for code deep inside the project's core.

LLMs change this. They make it much easier for maintainers and motivated users to amplify the power of their eyeballs.