
Patrick Collins
Co-founder and CEO of Dam Secure, an AI security startup that puts guardrails on AI-generated code; former Chief Product and Technology Officer at Zip and Secure Code Warrior.
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Nov 5, 2026
Death by small bugs: securing code in the Vulnpocalypse, with Patrick Collins and Simon Harloff
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Simon HarloffGUEST
So it is a double-edged sword, but I think you've got safe harbor in these kind of bigger scale providers for sure.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
The LLMs are trained on all the stuff that's on the open internet, and the more common and popular that stuff is, the more likely you are to get it right.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
Why go with obscure language choices that have poor training data for the LLMs and probably have less... just overall less training data when you can go simple and vanilla there was there was once a period of time where cool tech modern tech was the right way to go and and it was normally through the lens of sometimes you know like principles like dry and you know keeping the code simpler and that doesn't matter anymore it doesn't matter if the code's verbose it doesn't matter if it if it takes more lines of code and is harder to read.
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Simon HarloffGUEST
And so I feel like most implementations are lights on and people are getting involved, either when the agent just has too much ambiguity and it needs to ask questions or follow up questions to, you know, flesh out the spec a little bit more, implementation didn't go as planned and so on.
Talking Finance: Rising Rates, What’s Driving One Nation and AI Cyber Threats
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Alan KohlerHOST
Can you, can you tell us what that means? In firstly, what does open weight mean? And secondly, how, how is that affecting the world of cybersecurity?

Patrick CollinsGUEST
The frontier models that we got initially from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, they're closed models.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
That means you can download them, you can run them locally on your computer, we can run them with sovereign, in sovereign locations.
six co-founders, no vesting schedules and a $7m hole ~ Patrick Collins
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33:08LovethHOST
How did you land on Damsecure? What was the problem? Why was that the problem you thought was worth interrogating and solving?

Patrick CollinsGUEST
I think as I mentioned, I'd been, I knew that it was going to be time for me to start my own business again soon.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
I really enjoy being chief product officer at larger companies, but there's something about doing it for yourself.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
And as a builder, it's a pretty easy transition to go from being a product executive to building your own business.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
It's, it's actually not as hard as it sounds because it's just product executive for another company to being a product executive at your own company.
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Ep 55 - There Is No Best Model - Open Weights Caught Up and the Benchmarks Prove It - Dam Secure
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Cameron WaltersHOST
Where do you guys want to kind of break down all the research or like, is there an underlying theme that you want to set the tone for? Well,

Patrick CollinsGUEST
I mean, maybe we should just start talking about what, what this research is and what we found.

Patrick CollinsGUEST
So we've had Gemini 3.8 flash, sorry, uh, Gemini 3.8 flash that Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, which is AGI, by the way.
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