
Natalie Pistunovich
As a professional question asker and passionate learner, Natalie found that the intersection of AI, code, and security sparks joy. She is an AI Engineer, a former OpenAI Developer Ambassador, and a Google Developer Expert for Go. In addition to teaching DevOps at the university HTW Berlin, she is a public speaker and conference and community organizer in Berlin.
When Your Coding Agent Does Something You Didn't Ask For
AI Coding Summit Berlin
Upcoming
When Your Coding Agent Does Something You Didn't Ask For

We all write code with AI tools now, and those tools are basically agents with real access to our machines. This year gave us a good look at what happens when that goes sideways. The case this talk makes is that these problems aren't new or mysterious. They're the same kinds of security bugs we've dealt with for years, just wearing an agent costume: something untrusted comes in, and something with real permissions goes out. And often it isn't one bad action, it's a few normal ones that add up.