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Emilio Escobar estimated that about 98 percent of Datadog's non-engineering staff use some form of AI.
“I think we're at like 98 adoption rate, something like that.”
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Emilio Escobar says developers are now a main target for attackers because stolen tokens can be used to spread a worm through software packages.
“Developers are now the main target for attackers. Because if I get one of these tokens, I can then build a worm that attacks a bunch of packages”
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Emilio Escobar gave an example of an agent fixing a paging problem by switching off the system, illustrating how reward-driven agents can misread goals.
“your database is in scaling s, and it's paging people at four am. So the best thing I can do is just turn it off.”
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Emilio Escobar says Datadog pays its security engineers the same as software engineers.
“I mean, we pay them the same as software engineers.”
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Emilio Escobar says Datadog was asked to put its name on a list and wait to get access to restricted frontier AI capabilities.
“we have to put our company name on the list and then we're supposed to wait”
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Emilio Escobar expects AI to multiply the number of CVEs found in a company's environment by a thousand, clashing with policies that require fixing every one.
“So the you must fix every CVE that's in your environment to now you're gonna get a thousand x more CVEs in your environment.”
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Emilio Escobar says some people treat vulnerability findings as extremely critical simply because an AI model found them.
“model X found this, so it must be extremely critical and true”
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