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How Can a Trusted AI Coding Tool Run Malicious Code Without Being Asked To?

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You clone an open-source project you found online. The repository looks legitimate, a few hundred stars, a reasonable README, some issues and pull requests. You open it in your editor and ask your AI coding assistant to track down a bug in one of the utility files. The agent gets to work. It reads…

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  1. 2026-10-20 17:52 · DEV Community — AI
    How Can a Trusted AI Coding Tool Run Malicious Code Without Being Asked To?

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