What the Dev? · 2026-08-11 · 26 min
Dave Rubinstein interviews Ilya Kabanov, a former Google AI security manager, about the disconnect between AI's rapid code generation and security measures. Kabanoff, who leads the Weather Report and is a research affiliate at MIT, discusses the significant progress AI has made in writing functional code, citing a 4x increase in security over a year. However, security checks cost five times more than code writing, posing economic challenges. Kabanov emphasizes the need for education, understanding AI's limitations, and prioritizing fundamental security practices to ensure secure AI-generated code.
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