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Before The Commit

Danny Gershman, Dustin Hilgaertner

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🧠 Before The Commit: What happens before code is written matters more than ever. Join engineers from SC2S, C2S, and secure DoD factories as they explore AI-powered dev, shifting threat surfaces, and real-world workflows. No hype, no hot takes — just honest, tactical insight for leaders who know that pre-commit is too late. Hosted live by Danny Gershman & Dustin Hilgaertner. Secure or Sus? Let’s find out.

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Episode 2: Cursor Background Agents

Before The Commit

1 hour 18 minutes 3 seconds

3 months ago

Episode 2: Cursor Background Agents

🎧 Before the Commit – Episode 2

The Future of Coding Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here.

In this episode, we dive into the cutting edge of agent-powered development with Cursor’s new background agents — are we on the verge of coding without ever opening an IDE? Can AI truly handle the dev work while you're at a baseball game?

We explore how top tools like Grok 4 and Claude are changing the game, discuss a wild experiment where an entire company was staffed by LLMs, and unpack OpenAI’s quiet pivot into custom software services.

We also tackle a real-world threat model: prompt injection via context poisoning — how attackers could use AI’s own superpowers against it.

And we ask the big questions:

Are developers becoming managers of agents?
Is search dead?
Can you really trust AI with your codebase — or your business?

If you're curious about where software, security, and AI are heading next — and how to stay ahead of the curve — this is one episode you don’t want to miss.