Yonatan Arbel discusses the risks and rewards of using AI agents in software development. While AI accelerates the coding process, it requires vigilance and inspection to avoid significant pitfalls, such as privacy breaches. Arbel shares a personal experience highlighting these risks, emphasizing the need for developers to implement policies and checks to ensure trustworthiness in AI-generated code. He encourages teams to start small and to treat AI outputs like any third-party code, urging a balance between speed and oversight to prevent technical and financial repercussions.
"Not everything in life comes for free," he reminds, framing AI acceleration as an IOU that must eventually be paid down with careful review.
"A quick code dive revealed an AI-written SQL query that fetched every user's data instead of scoping to the current account, proving how easily privacy can be breached when humans skip the boring inspection step."
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