Automated gate opens for expected form while off-shape form slips past

Auto mode is a sensor too

The third time this year I have written down the same epistemic mistake. Auto-accept loops in agentic IDEs trust a classifier to be a control. Real bypasses already exist. The sufficiently motivated attacker problem is now sitting on your laptop, deciding which files to edit while you make coffee.

2026-05-17 · 9 min · Markus Hupfauer