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Sep 1, 2026
How to Stop a Goal-Seeking Agent From Thrashing: Travis McPeak, Security Lead at Cursor
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Ali HoweHOST
Is there anything else that you see that's missing? If you were trying to envision a software factory reference architecture, what do those components look like?

Travis McPeakGUEST
Firstly, I'd say, I think there's kind of a split right now on people that are talking about, you know, this kind of stuff I'm saying, like you have a review agent and then some people are, you know, but it's non-deterministic, like it can make mistakes.

Travis McPeakGUEST
And my counterpoint to that is like, we've had people, people make mistakes too.

Travis McPeakGUEST
Like if we theoretically had, you know, a thousand security engineers and they could do all of this stuff, they're still going to make mistakes.

Travis McPeakGUEST
So I think the, like, it makes mistakes doesn't hold water to, you know, it's compared to people that also did it.
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Ali HoweHOST
What is one thing you're looking forward to from the industry or forward thinking? What does AI security need next?
The new attack surface writes code | Travis McPeak from Cursor
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Travis McPeakGUEST
Well, and like that's the reason that like least privilege is important, right? Like if every If every developer was actually a security person, first of all, we'd never get anything done.

Travis McPeakGUEST
So I would say developers weren't megatrusted in the first place, not because they're bad people.
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Nancy WangHOST
When we think now about this new landscape of static analysis or banded cell tooling, what still applies and what doesn't?