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Willison: StrongDM implemented a policy where engineers never read code
“The next rule though is nobody reads the code and this is the thing which StrongDM started doing back in, I think it was August last year. They said, okay, we're not going to read the code.”
Willison: StrongDM used coding agents to simulate Slack, Jira, and Okta APIs
“So what they did is they built their own simulation of Slack and Jira and Okta and all of this software they were integrating with. And the way they did that is they basically took the API documentation for the public APIs for Slack and the client libraries, t…”
Willison: OpenAI and Anthropic maintain private, restricted security models
“Both OpenAI and Anthropic have specialist security models That they will not release to the general public because they can be used to break into websites. So they have like invite only, like registered security researchers can apply for access and they've bee…”
Willison: Anthropic found and responsibly disclosed 100 vulnerabilities to Mozilla
“I think Firefox just a few days ago, maybe last week said that they'd, they'd done a release, which was assisted by Anthropic. Anthropic had Discovered a hundred like potential vulnerabilities in Firefox and responsibly reported them to Mozilla who then fixed …”
Willison: Cloudflare and Shopify planned 1,000 interns due to AI onboarding
“Cloudflare and Shopify, both said they were hiring a thousand interns over the course of 20, 25. Because the intern onboarding costs, it used to be takes a month before you enter and can do anything useful. Now they're doing something useful within like a week…”
Willison: OpenClaw progressed from first commit to Super Bowl ad in months
“The first line of code for OpenClaw was written on November the 25th. And then in the super bowl, there was an ad for AI.com, which was effectively a vaporware white labeled open claw hosting provider. So we went from first line of code in November to super bo…”