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Re:Software Engineering fundamentals matter more by chmod775 on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:43AM (#49329335)
> I'm sure someone is going to reply with how they do not trust Antrophic's research, but lacking other data, prompt injection appears to be largely solved already.

You do not solve "losing russian roulette" by adding more empty chambers. One bullet in 600 chambers is still one bullet too much. How about we don't play the stupid game in the first place?

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Re:Software Engineering fundamentals matter more by user43928 on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:04AM (#49329527)
In this context that probably relates to reducing permissions of the coding agent.

That might be a tradeoff in convenience which one has to assess against the risk. And for that risk assessment, it seems that coding agents with broad permissions are so far used largely without issue by like ten million users.

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