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Before The Commit

Danny Gershman, Dustin Hilgaertner

18 episodes

6 days ago

AI is writing your code. Who's watching the AI? Before The Commit explores AI coding security, emerging threats, and the trends reshaping software development. Hosts Danny Gershman and Dustin Hilgaertner break down threat models, prompt injection, shadow AI, and practical defenses — drawing from experience across defense, fintech, and enterprise environments. Companion to the book Before The Commit: Securing AI in the Age of Autonomous Code. No hype, just tactical insight for developers, security engineers, and leaders building in the AI era.

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Episode 2: Cursor Background Agents

Before The Commit

1 hour 18 minutes 3 seconds

5 months ago

Episode 2: Cursor Background Agents

🎧 Before the Commit – Episode 2

The Future of Coding Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here.

In this episode, we dive into the cutting edge of agent-powered development with Cursor’s new background agents — are we on the verge of coding without ever opening an IDE? Can AI truly handle the dev work while you're at a baseball game?

We explore how top tools like Grok 4 and Claude are changing the game, discuss a wild experiment where an entire company was staffed by LLMs, and unpack OpenAI’s quiet pivot into custom software services.

We also tackle a real-world threat model: prompt injection via context poisoning — how attackers could use AI’s own superpowers against it.

And we ask the big questions:

Are developers becoming managers of agents?
Is search dead?
Can you really trust AI with your codebase — or your business?

If you're curious about where software, security, and AI are heading next — and how to stay ahead of the curve — this is one episode you don’t want to miss.