Reflections on Trusting Trust, revisited: poisoning self-modifying AI coding
sbulaev · hn · 2026-09-18
An arXiv paper revisits Ken Thompson's classic "Reflections on Trusting Trust" in the age of AI coding: as coding tools start self-modifying and generating code, attackers could poison training data or generation processes, covertly spreading malicious code through self-modification loops. The paper analyzes these attack vectors and threats to the AI coding trust chain.
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