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Key concerns include: AI-generated code increasing vulnerability surface area at 10x the rate, slop squatting (attackers uploading malicious packages matching AI-hallucinated package names), prompt injection attacks, and agents running with excessive permissions. He recommends treating security as a dedicated multi-pass review step separate from correctness, integrating tools like Snyk and Chainguard into LLM workflows, and designing adversarial agent oversight systems now before engineers spin up poorly-permissioned agents at scale. He also warns about AI-powered social engineering scams targeting individuals and families. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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