Security issues in the agentic coding era
Programming has always been about translating human intent into something a machine can execute. A digital computer works with electrical states that are modeled as 1 and 0. That is precise for the machine, but painful for humans. Assembly made the interface slightly better by giving humans mnemonics and labels, but the programmer still had to describe small machine operations by hand. Moving a value, setting a register, jumping to an address, comparing a condition, and managing memory all had to be expressed close to the processor’s view of the world....