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Q Did you also notice when you were doing that the vulnerability of your business before?
A I, I mean, I think absolutely. I, I think we realized in that moment, it was the classic innovators dilemma where we had, you know, this product, it was growing really fast. It continues to grow really fast, but we also knew where the space was going and we wanted to put as many resources as possible in our newer products. Um, and so during that month Shensi was talking about, we also realized like we do not have this ability to just put unlimited resources on this new thing. How can we get more with less? And that was why we, we knew we had to invest in AI. We knew we had to be able to build New products and, and, you know, adapt our existing products with just a couple of people. So honestly, actually building our, our next product agent handler, we had one engineer and me and Shensi, and we were helping on nights, weekends. We did whatever we could have because we needed to contribute. We needed to help. And the other half was if we are the leaders of this company, we have to know everything there is to know about how AI works, how you build with AI so that one, we are more effective and two, we're building for where the puck is going.
AI assessment note: “I think absolutely. I, I think we realized in that moment, it was the classic innovators dilemma”
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Q like, cybersecurity has become a hot topic, and we're seeing prevalent breaches over and over and over again, and a lot of times it's through integrations and different APIs connecting things together, whether it's, like, someone's using, I don't know, like, Vercel was talking about theirs openly, like, we saw the Merkur one, we've seen So many. Okay. So what is the state of cybersecurity in this layer of AI?
A Yeah. I mean, I think one of the biggest problems, so what caused, you know, Mercore and a bunch of others is the supply chain attacks where everyone's using these same open source packages, but now the number of pull requests or code change requests that are being sent to GitHub, I haven't seen the chart in a little bit, but it's like massively soaring to the point where it's, you can tell it's all agentic, right? Agents are pushing a ton of code. You don't have enough humans to read all that code, and so things are slipping by, things are getting in, and one of them was a vulnerability that gets injected into an open source package that everybody relies on and uses, and so all of a sudden, that, that little, you know, virus or that file goes into all the code bases, and people are just getting really screwed over by that, so I think there is a need for, for seriously, like, slowing down, especially with these core packages, being incredibly careful, um, Yeah, I think that's, that's one of the, the big ones we're seeing, and we're only gonna see more of that as more AI generated code continues to get pushed out.
AI assessment note: “one of the biggest problems... is the supply chain attacks where everyone's using these same open source packages”
