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Robert Reeves

Co-founder of Liquibase (formerly Datical), database DevOps executive and recurring Techstrong Gang panelist.

Oct 15, 2026

32:01
Robert, is there some kind of justice in all of this in your mind, or what's going on here?
32:07
Well, what I took from the article is that we had a leader of a bank come out and say, we have security issues and we need to fix that.
32:20
I was like, is this opposite day? What's going on when a CEO comes out and says, we've got so many bug security issues and we're fixing it.
32:34
The transparency of that was heartening.
32:38
And it's certainly, you know, I think we were talking about this last week on TechStrong or the week before about, you know, we're going to have this, you know, big group of security issues as AI finds them initially, and eventually they'll go down.
32:56
But it's really important that as we fix things, I would hope these engineers that are coming in to fix security issues would start with a test to validate it, start with test-driven development first, and to use AI and make sure that it is following best practices that human engineers follow.
33:20
If AI has found a security issue, let's look at the rest of the code and see if it's there and create a test case for every single application to check for this so we don't get it again.

7 MINS LATER

40:10
Is that where we landed? Yeah.
17:57
Robert, are we losing this battle? Are we going to win this thing? Or how do you see this all playing out? Because I'm kind of scratching my head, looking at the math a little bit and going, this doesn't bode well.
18:10
It does.
18:11
I actually take this as a positive, all right? Because, you know, there's a few things that come out here.
18:17
One, more vulnerabilities are being found and you do not improve As an individual, as an organization, as a society, by ignoring your problems.
18:30
So that's the first good thing.
18:32
All right.
18:33
The second is, is that there is that backlog, that acceleration of fixing these is increasing.

6 MINS LATER

25:06
So they're basically looking at everybody going, prioritizing what?

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