The Real Trust Boundary Lies Beyond the LLM
WesEklund · x · 2026-07-11
The author highlights a critical, often overlooked issue when building AI applications:
> If an LLM outputs harmful or malicious content, what happens next?
They argue that:
- If the answer is "direct execution," it becomes a security vulnerability.
- If the answer is "passing through a validation layer first," then you have a security architecture.
The core takeaway is: The LLM itself is not the trust boundary; the real trust boundary lies in the code and validation layers downstream of the LLM.
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