SpecterOps' Gavin Kramer, who built the Blacklight toolkit, says coding-agent transcripts expose projects, decisions and connected systems as well as keys. His advice to security teams starts with an inventory and per-role retention, with the caveat that an empty Blacklight report does not show a clean machine.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives35
- Confidence55
Cohesity's Agent Resilience rolls Bedrock AI agents back to immutable recovery points, yet its product leads say emails already sent stay sent. Outside systems still need their own clean-up and tests, and the company calls its recovery-time edge intended, not measured.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Nir Nave, Cycode's VP Product Research, told Lets Data Science that completing a cooldown is not proof a package is safe. Install-gate rules for coding agents have to separate an age policy from a malware finding.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
Michael Aragon, a solution architect at IP Fabric, told Lets Data Science that the platform computes the reachability verdict and the assistant only chooses the query and explains the result. An engineer still has to review that choice.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption15
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
Flux gave Lets Data Science a three-month before-and-after from one anonymized customer: deployment frequency improved, static-analysis findings rose, and the company was working without developer-level AI usage data for either.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
Ying Zhang told Lets Data Science that a useful review of a third-party agent skill follows an API key from the instruction that asks for it to the function that receives it and on to where it lands.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−15
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
The 51.7 percent in DataDome's 2026 bot report is login's share of five sensitive endpoint types, and Jerome Segura told Lets Data Science the same 313 million requests work out to about 1.08 percent of the 29.02 billion requests the company could classify by path.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Vention's Jimmy Li told Lets Data Science that the work after the trade-show demo was collision models, grasp tuning and a bevel on the receptacle, and he defined the reliability metrics but gave no numbers.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption22
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
IBM research data scientist Gabby Nyirjesy told Lets Data Science that neighboring map patches went into training and test with no separation between them. The 22% gain over SwinV2-B holds under that one partition.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption22
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives58
- Confidence65
Front's VP of engineering scores each agent on four axes plus three rates, and warns that questions generated from your own documentation are answerable by construction, so they grade the easy half of production traffic.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+11
- Incentives70
- Confidence44
Levels.fyi's US submissions put the L3 AI premium at 1.29x, down from 1.34x in late 2024. The outlier money now tracks employer, not skill: an OpenAI recruiter shows 3.7x market pay.
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives62
- Confidence55
The company's CTO puts agent cost in terminal noise rather than model pricing. The 30 to 80 percent savings are vendor-reported; the 847-to-9 measurement is the part worth keeping.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives82
- Confidence45