Tanya Janca | Shehackspurple

**Not everything needs to be a damn AI agent.**

There. I said it. And I will keep saying it.

Warning: hot takes ahead.

Recently, I was teaching a secure AI class, and one of my students was telling me about an AI agent they were building.
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**Telling your AI agent not to do something is NOT the same as preventing it from doing that thing.**

Imagine giving an AI coding agent access to your entire filesystem.

Then you tell it:

"Only modify files inside this project directory."

Very clear instructions, right?
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