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StrongDM

3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 2, 2026 by Simon Willison · across every show →

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Apr 2, 2026
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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
Apr 2, 2026
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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
Apr 2, 2026
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Willison: StrongDM spent $10K daily on tokens simulating software testers
“Like they were spending 10,000 dollars a day on tokens, I think, simulating all of these end users. I believe so. But it meant that their software was being very robustly tested in all of these different ways.”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 16:34 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
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