How AI Broke Open Source Security | Security Corner with Ismail Pelaseyed

Open source is under attack, and AI changed the math. In this Security Corner, Ismail Pelaseyed, co-founder and CTO of Superagent, joins Shane and Abhi to break down how the software supply chain became the soft underbelly of everything we build. An attack that once took an army of researchers and weeks of work now takes about an hour, and the attacker no longer needs a frontier model to pull it off. Ismail traces how most breaches begin, why phishing has become almost impossible to spot, and how a single poisoned dependency can cascade across an entire ecosystem. You'll get concrete steps any maintainer or developer can take today: switching package managers, enabling the security scanners that ship for free, and standing up an adversarial agent that hunts for chained exploits before an attacker finds them. Ismail also warns that the same instincts protecting enterprises may be quietly strangling open source itself. You'll hear why he thinks the big registries have dropped the ball, what a "Darwinian GitHub" would mean for anyone shipping a new package, and the one move he believes can keep the ecosystem alive.