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Researchers have uncovered dangerous security vulnerabilities in the PHP engine with the assistance of AI models, prompting developers and major tech companies to release versions that quickly patched the flaws and introduced a new proactive security disclosure framework.
Andi Gutmans, a contributor to the creation of PHP and head of the Agentic Data Cloud at Google, believes that agents represent an extension of the path toward making software development accessible to more people. But this shift moves the value of a developer’s work from writing code manually to directing agents, reviewing their output, and managing risk and data quality.