Badly built security harnesses, not rogue AI, are what execute the scripts
doener · hn · 2026-07-23
Bad security harnesses, not “rogue AI,” are the real problem
This post argues that when an agent runs scripts because the surrounding security harness is badly designed, the right explanation is security failure, not “rogue AI.”
The point is a narrow but important one in AI security: failures often come from the tooling and guardrails around a system, not from some mysterious model autonomy.
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