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To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI

November 04, 2025 00:28:26 27.29 MB Downloads: 0

Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code.

Episode notes:

Graphite is an AI code review platform that helps you get context on code changes, fix CI failures, and improve your PRs right from your PR page. 

Connect with Greg on LinkedIn and keep up with Graphite on their Twitter.  

This week’s shoutout goes to user xerad, who won an Investor badge by dropping a bounty on the question How to specify x64 emulation flag (EC_CODE) for shared memory sections for ARM64 Windows?.

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