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Re:Window Sweaters by misterderpie on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:09PM (#50383813)
Isn't your agent just checking the code, and at best it doesn't contain a "IGNORE THE NEXT 5 LINES"? Prompt injection is still very much real.

In addition, even if it checks the code, what tells you that

- the homebrew application is matching the code, or

- the build in GitHub is matching the code?

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Re:Window Sweaters by jrflo on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:27PM (#50384039)
Frontier models are smart enough to ignore naive prompt injection attacks like that. I don’t know if that’s actually a concern or not, I had Opus try download a dataset for me and it found a redirect loop designed to catch AI crawlers and identified it.
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Re:Window Sweaters by coeneedell on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:40PM (#50384830)
100% of the time?
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Re:Window Sweaters by noodletheworld on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:47PM (#50384926)
I can assure you, personally, Opus is not immune to prompt injection attacks.
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Re:Window Sweaters by dist-epoch on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:06PM (#50385830)
Prompt injection is very much not real anymore.
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Re:Window Sweaters by misterderpie on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:29PM (#50386582)
"I benchmarked 10 open-source prompt-injection detectors. The best caught 51%. How are you actually defending your agents?" [0]

Is it?

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wqne0u/i_benchm...

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Re:Window Sweaters by cubefox on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:40PM (#50387479)
He was talking about LLM susceptibility to prompt injection attacks, not about "open-source prompt-injection detectors", whatever that is.
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