Will Gaybrick(@gaybrick):This is chilling to read and demonstrates the most pernicious threat of agentic cyber attacks: recursive vulnerability. It’s one thing for any of us to write insecure code—possible but preventable, and increasingly so with our robotic sidekicks—and quite another to be compromised by a dependency seven layers deep. You relied on software that relied on software that relied on software … that relied on software that we all agreed was safe, but suddenly wasn’t. Assuming anything about the safety of your dependencies is now complacency.

2026.08.29 17:50

This is chilling to read and demonstrates the most pernicious threat of agentic cyber attacks: recursive vulnerability. It’s one thing for any of us to write insecure code—possible but preventable, and increasingly so with our robotic sidekicks—and quite another to be compromised by a dependency seven layers deep. You relied on software that relied on software that relied on software … that relied on software that we all agreed was safe, but suddenly wasn’t. Assuming anything about the safety of your dependencies is now complacency.