Alberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation scanned 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours with Claude Code, to find and fix security gaps. Work that classic methods would have ground away at for years.
- Alberta scanned 466 million lines of government code in ~20 hours with Claude Code (Opus + Sonnet), patching vulnerabilities.
- The project has been running since 2025 and now uses standing agents for continuous security review.
- Reading: systematic agentic review at scale is within a small team's reach too - but with gates and a human at the gate.
Not a startup - a government administration running an AI agent over its entire codebase. Alberta did it. And announced it publicly, with numbers on the table.
The interesting part isn't the speed, it's the framework around it. A public institution with sensitive code runs an agent, but doesn't give it free rein - it digs and proposes, the human decides what goes in. And it runs continuously, not for a single audit.
The same move is within a small team's reach too: run an agent through the code, you stay at the gate on the fixes. At scale, regular machine review beats manual - that's where the gain is, not in the show around the number 466 million.