Telling an AI agent “do not access external systems” is an instruction. Not giving it network access is a brake. Mark Gibbs hangs a whole argument on that difference, and it’s a sharp one. Gibbs, writing for TidBITS, takes the two comfort blankets of the AI safety debate (slow it down, keep a human in the loop) and asks whether either one actually stops anything. He’s in favour of both. He just doesn’t think either is a brake.

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In the last two Chrome releases, Google fixed 1,072 security bugs. That’s more than the previous 23 milestones combined. AI wrote most of the fixes.

That chart is what software productivity gains actually look like when AI moves from experiment to pipeline. Two years of flat patch rates, then a spike that dwarfs everything before.

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