How DarkControl is built and how to run it well.
A developer let a coding agent loose on a live Supabase project and lost every table in ten minutes. The recovery reads well until you notice that nothing in it was a control: the data was regenerable, the project had no users, and the backups were configured afterwards.
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An agent's blast radius is not what it was asked to do. It is everything its credentials permit, available to anyone who can influence its input. Four changes that shrink it.
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Approval is the answer most teams give when asked how AI-written change is controlled. Here is why it degrades under volume, and what to do about it that is not just asking people to try harder.
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Two things happened to the software supply chain in the last eighteen months: a worm that propagated through install-time scripts and stole developer and CI credentials, and models that confidently name packages nobody ever published. Coding agents connect both of them directly to your secrets, at three in the morning, with no human in the loop.
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