Aave Checkpoint Exposes AI Audit Limits

AI security tooling can generate impressive coverage while still badly miscalibrating severity; for DeFi, that makes human validation a safety requirement, not a formality.

• –Aave Checkpoint combines automated analysis with mandatory dual human review across V3, V4, GHO, and Aptos-v3.
• –The 28% validation rate suggests the tools are more useful for surfacing review candidates than delivering trustworthy verdicts.
• –Zero valid Critical or High findings is reassuring for the reviewed code, but it does not prove the tools can reliably detect serious vulnerabilities.
• –False-positive severity inflation creates alert fatigue and can obscure genuinely actionable Low-level issues.
• –The result is a strong argument for combining AI scans with formal verification, simulations, invariant testing, and expert review.