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The Walking Dead of Security: When AI Resurrects the Build vs. Buy Debate

· 40 min · Season 4, Episode 2

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Are cybersecurity technologies really dead, or are reports of their demise greatly exaggerated? Today’s episode is a discussion on how AI is reshaping the classic build vs. buy debate, empowering non-engineers to create working prototypes and potentially reviving the DIY coding culture of pre-open-source days. We also talk about how developers trained on open source are now leveraging AI built from that same foundation, raising questions about innovation and originality in modern programming.

Build vs Buy is Dead - AI Just Killed It 

Traditional Code Review is Dead




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