Matei Zaharia
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I spent quite a bit of time talking to internal users, developers, security team, managers, and also lots of customers.
There's a few things.
First of all, one thing that immediately became obvious is for security, there's this tension between usability and security.
The way people do a lot of
The coding agents today have very basic things like you can tell me which tool patterns I'll allow or disallow or whatever.
It's like yes or no.
But that puts you in a very tough spot.
So just as an example, like should my agent be able to read, you know, some confidential documents or let's say should it be able to install new packages from NPM, which, you know, maybe it's compromised.
Yes or no.
Like maybe I want to allow it.
Should my agent be able to publish stuff to the company website?
Well, if I'm using it to code on the website, yes.
But should it be able to do both so it can like grab a confidential document and be prompt injected and leak it?
Probably not.
So the thing we decided we need is stateful or what we call contextual policies where you keep track of the state of that session.
It's not like, is it allowed to push to the
marketing site or not, but like, hey, if it did a risky thing, like it installed, you know, a one day old package from NPM or it read like a thousand confidential docs, then no, then don't do it.
Otherwise, maybe it's okay.
That's one example of like moving that trade off.
So it's both more secure and more useful by having
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