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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.”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 14:47 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
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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…”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 17:17 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
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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…”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 19:24 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
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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 …”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 19:48 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
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