the answer to ai is engineering

The security take-off is here, and the answer isn't more AI. It's engineering. I gave a talk at AI DevCon New York about patching the planet with Nix and agents, how I got through the last round of security incidents without losing any sleep, and a bonus round on loops, back pressure and property-based testing.Everyone at the conference spent two days hearing about how to build software faster with factories. Cool. I wanted to talk about something different: how do you respond to security incidents faster? It turns out that if you optimise for incident response times, your build times speed up too. Here's the talk, written up properly, with the slides broken out and chapter links at the bottom if you want to jump to a specific part.It turns out the answer for AI is engineering.two weeks ago was pretty wild, huh?OpenCode got breached. Then the Prime Minister of Japan was tweeting at everyone to go and update PHP.Next thing you know, there's a vulnerability in an HTTP stack that lets…

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