After a wave of breaches, Huntley says the answer to AI is engineering, not more AI
rseroter · x · 2026-11-13
Geoffrey Huntley's talk at AI DevCon New York, "the answer to ai is engineering". Citing a recent string of incidents—OpenCode breached, Japan's PM tweeting everyone to update PHP, an HTTP stack flaw allowing remote server shutdown, a 12-year-old GitLab bug enabling RCE, and a certificate authority whose key was literally the number 4 instead of a 116-digit one—he argues that a security take-off is the new normal, and the answer isn't more AI but engineering.
Key claim: if you optimize for incident response times, your build times speed up too. He covers patching the whole world with a Nix overlay plus agents, how he rode out recent incidents without losing sleep, plus a bonus round on loops, back pressure, and property-based testing. The reblogger adds a hot take: cyber threats will only accelerate, and staying secure may soon require more inference capacity than your attackers.
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