Security workflows are being paved over by agents, and that may be a problem
drhyrum · x · 2026-07-28
A security-focused take argues that human-centric security workflows are like worn game trails: paths shaped by what people can safely manage and trust. The new shift is vendors “paving” those paths with agents.
The post asks whether incidents like Mythos and the Hugging Face case suggest vendors are building the right paths—or just the most direct ones. The accompanying image reinforces the joke: “human-centric security” on one side, an AI/agents cement truck on the other, turning a dirt road into a machine-made route.
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