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How AI coding agents could destroy open source software
Imagine a single rogue line of code slipping past your tired eyes - and suddenly your entire app is compromised. AI coding agents could be the silent saboteurs of the next big cybersecurity crisis.
rob dobi/Getty ImagesA couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to use Google's Jules AI Agent to scan through the entire code repository of one of my projects and add a new feature. Next, imagine the malicious agent-like tool gains access (don't worry about how -- we'll discuss that in the next section) to a large code repository on GitHub, and can make modifications and changes. But perhaps we can train isolated code-repo auditing AI agents to regularly scan repos for any sign of trouble and then alert human reviewers for possible action.
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