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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The rush to autonomous AI creates a governance challenge. Navya Agarwal says enterprises should begin with on-site AI agents before extending into browser and off-browser environments. Read more: spr.ly/63320BGz814 #FoundryExpert #EnterpriseAI
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Authentication can prove which agent you're talking to. It cannot prove that the agent still behaves the way it did yesterday. Karthik Karunanithi breaks down the risk: spr.ly/63320BGBnn0 #FoundryExpert #Cybersecurity
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Too many engineering teams still treat platform work as overhead. Srinivas Chippagiri argues that platform teams determine how fast everyone else can move. Read: spr.ly/63328BEFCA0 #FoundryExpert #DeveloperExperience
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Agentic pipelines are creating a new operational burden: orphaned tickets, stale branches, broken ownership chains. Suneet Malhotra shares the runbook lessons nobody puts in the demo: spr.ly/63329BE0IzZ #FoundryExpert #MCP
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Kubernetes looks elegant in a demo. At enterprise scale, it's a governance challenge. Srinivas Chippagiri argues the real problem isn't YAML. It's consistency across hundreds of teams. Are your platform standards keeping up? Read more: spr.ly/63322BEzE1g #FoundryExpert #Kubernetes
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For years, accessibility was treated as a compliance checkbox. AI agents are changing that equation. Navya Agarwal shows how accessible design can reduce latency, lower costs, & improve agent reliability. See what's driving the shift: spr.ly/63320BEDdFj #FoundryExpert #GenerativeAI
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Niharika Pujari draws a sharp line between “slow” and “broken” in modern UIs. Are you designing for latency or still assuming failure? See why progressive rendering is now table stakes: spr.ly/63329BDMbEH #FoundryExpert #WebDevelopment
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🔗spr.ly/63324B8swK2 Chisom Nwokwu says the data stack is shifting fast as embedding pipelines replace classic ETL for AI workloads. See why developers must rethink data flow design now. #FoundryExpert #DataEngineering
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
As AI skills surge in demand, certifications are multiplying fast. Paul Frenken explores whether they actually build expertise or fall short in practice. Get the full breakdown: spr.ly/63326B6N5m2 #InfoWorldNews #TechCareers
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Are AI certifications worth the investment?
The AI credential revolution: A guide for IT professionals and business leaders.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Terraform promised simplicity, but scale is exposing new complexity. Neel Shah breaks down what’s going wrong. Read why IaC can become infrastructure-as-complexity and how teams can respond: spr.ly/63321B6vqnz #FoundryExpert #DevOps #Cloud
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Enterprises are rushing into voice AI, but poor UX is killing adoption. Priyanka Kuvalekar explains why conversational design is now a core engineering concern. Read more: spr.ly/63326B6o7Nj #FoundryExpert #VoiceAI #EnterpriseAI
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The bar for enterprise security is rising fast. At the CSO Awards during CSO Conference USA in Nashville on May 11-13, top teams show what execution looks like. Register to learn from the leaders: spr.ly/63324B6nLK0 #CSOAwards #CSOConference #CyberLeadership #CISO
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
AI is collapsing the gap between design and code. Pega CTO Don Schuerman shows how workflows can become running apps in minutes. Watch now: spr.ly/63323B6pf2P #DEMO #AI #SoftwareDevelopment
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How Pega Blueprint Uses AI to Turn Workflows Into Running Apps in Minutes
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how enterprise applications are designed, but many organizations still struggle with a familiar problem: translating business requirements into working software. In this episode of DEMO, Pega CTO Don Schuerman introduces Blueprint, a design-time AI capability that aims to close that gap by turning workflow ideas into functional applications in minutes.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Cloud scale is exposing structural flaws faster than teams can react. As Venkata Nedunoori explains, most cloud security failures start with people and process, not tech. Read the breakdown: spr.ly/63325B6Gmp9 #FoundryExpert #CloudSecurity #DevOps
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Marcin Wyszynski argues that trusting “benevolent” open source is how teams get blindsided by maintainers, roadmaps, and forks. Here’s what developers should reconsider before the next update breaks: spr.ly/63321h4dPz #FoundryExpert #SoftwareEngineering #BuildPipeline
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Bob Violino highlights how AI is reshaping developer skill sets faster than teams can adjust. See which capabilities now matter most: spr.ly/63322htizA #InfoWorldNews #AIinDev #DeveloperSkills
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Farhan Kaskar shares the engineering discipline behind an AI platform designed for sustained throughput and reliability. See the full breakdown: spr.ly/63329hs7QX #FoundryExpert #CloudArchitecture #MLEngineering
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Bill Doerrfeld @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The hyperscalers jumped on the #MCP train quickly. So what can you actually do with MCP servers for major clouds? My latest for @infoworld.bsky.social looks at what's possible using official MCP servers from AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and IBM Cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4129...
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Five MCP servers to rule the cloud
The hyperscalers were quick to support AI agents and the Model Context Protocol. Use these official MCP servers from the major cloud providers to automate your cloud operations.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"High-tech companies are spending massive amounts of money on data centers because the market rewards them for doing so. Capital expenditures have become a kind of corporate signaling mechanism," writes David Linthicum. www.infoworld.com/article/4134...
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The data center gold rush is warping reality
Is the data center building boom driven by competitive signaling or real demand? If adoption falls short, today’s boom will bring tomorrow’s bust.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Tom Wilkie breaks down why open source is becoming the default starting point for real‑world AI engineering. His take shows how community‑driven models boost speed and experimentation. Read his analysis: spr.ly/63326hgBcI #FoundryExpert #DevTools #MLEngineering
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Cloud complexity is piling up, and dev teams are paying the price. John Doss breaks down why replatforming is the new reality for modern workloads. spr.ly/63325heDAh #FoundryExpert #DevOps #CloudRefactoring
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Start with this article and see why reactive IT cannot survive: spr.ly/63329hunm5 Your cloud stack is generating more complexity than humans can interpret. Sopuluchukwu Ani argues that predictive engineering is the only way forward. #FoundryExpert
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
From transformers to GANs, AI is rewriting data quality. Sunil Kumar Mudusu details how automated repair and trust scoring redefine reliability. See what is changing: spr.ly/63322hMNQy #FoundryExpert #AnalyticsEngineering #DataInnovation
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Super Bowl isn’t just a broadcast. It is the world’s harshest distributed-systems stress test. Manoj Yerrasani explains why only intentional architecture survives the surge. Read the full analysis: spr.ly/63321hJUmS #FoundryExpert #DistributedSystems #SuperBowl2026
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
What might software development might look like in a post-code world? www.infoworld.com/article/4122...
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Is code a cow path?
There is probably a more direct route from AI models to the software we want than having agents work with code.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Could CPython be on track to displace PyPy for better performance? We ran PyPy and the latest JIT-enabled and no-GIL CPython builds side by side on the same benchmarks, with intriguing results. www.infoworld.com/article/4117...
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CPython vs. PyPy: Which Python runtime has the better JIT?
How does CPython’s new native-JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Agentic AI breaks the old security model. One compromised agent can collapse the system in minutes. Akshay Mittal shares the blueprint for a trust layer. Learn more: spr.ly/63324hBdNi #FoundryExpert
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If “10x engineer” sounds mythical, it’s time to rethink the math. Real leverage comes from elevating everyone around you. Learn how from Ritvika Nagula. spr.ly/63321hBXS7 #FoundryExpert #EngineeringCulture #TechnicalLeadership
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It’s no different with machine learning and large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/2336...
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16 open source projects transforming AI and machine learning
From fine-tuning open source models to building agentic frameworks on top of them, the open source world is ripe with projects that support AI development.
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Bill Doerrfeld @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Edge AI is gaining new importance as the industry shifts from training to inference. My feature on @infoworld.bsky.social today digs into edge AI, and why tech leaders are betting on it for reduced cost, better privacy, and lower latency. www.infoworld.com/article/4117...
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Edge AI: The future of AI inference is smarter local compute
Smaller models, lightweight frameworks, specialized hardware, and other innovations are bringing AI out of the cloud and into clients, servers, and devices on the edge of the network.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
spr.ly/63327CFVCx Forget sci‑fi fantasies. Hyperautomation is real work, and Raul Leite shows how Ansible becomes the hands that orchestrate, connect and execute the automation CIOs rely on. #FoundryExpert #AutomationStrategy #EnterpriseEngineering
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
By making mongot’s source code publicly available, MongoDB is turning what was previously an Atlas-only, opaque service into inspectable components, said Sanjeev Mohan, principal analyst at SanjMo. www.infoworld.com/article/4118...
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MongoDB releases mongot source code to boost RAG and AI workloads
By releasing the code behind its search and vector engine under the SSPL, MongoDB is giving self‑managed users new visibility and control, helping developers build more reliable, production‑grade RAG ...
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
spr.ly/63328CLhZ4 When platform capacity hits zero, product teams face slipping launches and blocked revenue. Pratik Gupta shows how away‑teaming breaks the gridlock and unlocks progress without derailing platform priorities. #FoundryExpert #PlatformOps #ProductInnovation
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Used smartly, many of the slowest parts of the Rust toolchain can be made quite snappy. Here’s a compendium of common techniques for speeding up Rust compilation. www.infoworld.com/article/4115...
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Rust slow to compile? Here’s how to speed it up
If the big bottleneck in your Rust development workflow is compile time, there are at least five ways you can fix it.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
spr.ly/63322CxLyC Distributed monoliths kill agility. Neel Shah shows why composable architecture on AWS is the modern path to resilient and scalable software. #FoundryExpert #CloudNative #AWS
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
spr.ly/63323CaYbV One AI platform won’t cut it. Tom Popomaronis explains why stack thinking beats one-tool thinking and how to build an AI bench that delivers depth, nuance and resilience. #FoundryExpert #AI #TechStrategy
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Databricks's new “Instructed Retriever” architecture combines old-fashioned database queries with the similarity search of RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to offer more relevant responses to users’ prompts. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...
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Databricks says its Instruction Retrieval offers better AI answers than RAG in the enterprise
Databricks says Instructed Retrieval outperforms RAG and could move AI pilots to production faster, but analysts warn it could expose data, governance, and budget gaps that CIOs can’t ignore.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A former longtime contributor to the development of Rust now is building a Rust-based language of his own, called Rue, which is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...
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AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use
Developed using Anthropic’s Claude AI model, the new language is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Human coders may have a temporary reprieve from losing their jobs to AI. www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
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Forecast: AI won’t replace human devs for at least 5 years
Progress towards full AI-driven coding automation continues, but in steps rather than leaps, giving organizations time to prepare.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Microsoft has acquired AI-based data engineering firm Osmos as part of its effort to reduce data engineering friction inside Fabric, its unified data and analytics offering, as enterprises continue to push analytics and AI projects into production. www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
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Microsoft acquires Osmos to ease data engineering bottlenecks in Fabric
The acquisition could help enterprises push analytics and AI projects into production faster while acting as the missing autonomy layer that connects Fabric’s recent enhancements into a coherent syste...
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The advent of Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs hints at a coming era of agent-driven architecture. In this architecture, the chat interface becomes the front end and creates UI controls on the fly. Welcome to “generative UI.” www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
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Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end
In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Ruby 4.0.0 has arrived as the newest release of the interpreted, object-oriented Ruby programming language. The update features a new just-in-time compiler, ZJIT, and an experimental “Ruby Box” capability for in-process separation of classes and modules. www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
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Ruby 4.0.0 introduces ZJIT compiler, Ruby Box isolation
Ruby Box is an experimental feature that provides separate spaces in a Ruby process to isolate application code, libraries, and monkey patches.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
How must databases adapt to generative AI, and how should databases be integrated with large language models? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years now as VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4112...
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Generative AI and the future of databases
Google Cloud’s lead engineer for databases discusses the challenges of integrating databases and LLMs, the tools needed to overcome these challenges, and how AI-native databases will help bridge the g...
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript, JavaScript, and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx, to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
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Deno adds tool to run NPM and JSR binaries
Latest update to the Node.js rival also brings more granular control over permissions and a faster, experimental type checker.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The lack of frivolity and handholding is both the command-line’s power and its one major drawback. Now, a new class of AI tools seeks to preserve the power of the CLI while upgrading it with a more human-friendly interface. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
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AI power tools: 6 ways to supercharge your terminal
With something for everyone—whether you love the command-line or hate it—AI-powered shells have arrived.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A native JIT compiler has been added to Python over its last few releases. At first it didn’t provide any significant speedup. But with Python 3.15 (still in alpha but available for use now), the core Python development team has bolstered the native JIT. www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
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Get started with Python’s new native JIT
The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
If you were around for the first big wave of cloud adoption, you’ll remember how quickly the term cloud was pasted on everything. We are now repeating the pattern with agentic AI, this time faster. www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
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When is an AI agent not really an agent?
Marketing hype is calling everything an agent, but mislabeling automations or souped-up chatbots as agents is a governance failure waiting to happen.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Lock-in is not new. We have always had to balance managed services with portability. The difference now is the depth and systemic nature of AI-native lock-in. www.infoworld.com/article/4108...
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Why your next cloud bill could be a trap
Your enterprise may be more locked into a vendor’s AI than you realize, thanks to AI-native features in services you’re already using.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
2025 was the year generative AI stopped being theoretical and started doing real work—with a little fun along the way. www.infoworld.com/article/4108...
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Agents, protocols, and vibes: The best AI stories of 2025
Start winding down the year with our picks from the most-read generative AI features and tutorials of 2025.
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InfoWorld.com @infoworld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here is why your AI agent strategy is probably a security nightmare, and how to fix it with some boring, necessary engineering. www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
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Building AI agents the safe way
The best defense against prompt injection and other AI attacks is to do some basic engineering, test more, and not rely on AI to protect you.
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