Chrome engineer asks: do agents improve incident response or just ship unpatched deps 10x faster?
fhinkel · x · 2026-10-22
Mathias Bynens (fhinkel), an engineering manager on Chrome, reacted to a major CVE security chaos day with a pointed question: did agents actually improve incident response and dependency hygiene, or are we just deploying unpatched dependencies 10x faster?
The remark captures an emerging risk of AI coding tools — agents accelerate writing code and pulling dependencies, but patching and security review may not keep pace, amplifying supply-chain exposure.
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