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Vibe Coding Vulnerabilities

Written by Satu on the 25th of July 2025

There has been an influx of AI tools being able to code, create working proofs of concept from prompts (text description of what the model should do), create tests for code, document it, and so forth. This all makes perfect sense as there is an abundance of code available on the internet that can be utilised, with various shades of acceptability of means, to train models to be able to have this capability.

The tools are so good now, it allows anyone to create a piece of software. It allowed us to change the framework under Fenrir from streamlit to flask in a very short timeframe when we had only a beginner understanding of flask. So it is very good. It is very easy. And increasingly it is used.

Read the full article here: https://helheimlabs.ai/blog/2025/07/25/vibe-coding-vulnerabilities/

Regarding rules of engagement

Written by Satu on the 25th of July 2025

When beginning any endeavor, one plans the approach, the goals, the players, and the strategy. This is especially true for any business as the amount of design, planning, strategizing, and basically answers required by funders, investors, banks, and so forth is not insignificant. AI businesses are no different, or at least they should not be. Each company plans what they want to do and find others who share their view of how to do things. If they are successful enough in getting people and money on their side, the company gets started and developed.

This post is about thinking through potential strategies behind some of the big players in AI. The goal of this is to raise discussion about what we want to allow and under what rules. It stems from the misconception that I’ve frequently run against that AI is not regulated because it’s new technology. Therein lies one main misconception. Just because it is new, does not mean it is not regulated.

Read the full article here: Regarding rules of engagement

AI: What is beyond the hype?

Written by Satu Korhonen 27th of June 2025

At this year’s Open Source Summit in Vienna, Linus Torvalds offered a cutting remark that captured the growing skepticism in the tech world: “AI is 90% marketing and 10% reality.” Coming from the creator of Linux, a project built on transparency and pragmatism, the statement resonated. It’s a sobering take in a wave of soaring valuations, ambitious predictions, and daily claims that AI will change everything. And a rise in that skepticism is seen elsewhere too. Where AI talks were sought after two years ago, they are far less so today.

There’s a saying in Finnish that something is like pushing a snake into the barrel of a rifle (Työntää käärmettä kiväärin piippuun) meaning that there’s a lot of push to force something into a place it doesn’t really want to go to. One excellent blog about this is this one about the color blue. So, lets explore this a bit.

Read the full article here: https://helheimlabs.ai/blog/2025/06/27/ai-what-is-beyond-the-hype/

Friday AI detox: Reclaiming Thought in the Age of Infinite AI

Written by Silvan Gebhardt and Satu Korhonen 18th of June 2025

On June 10, 2025, ChatGPT went down and with it, an eerie silence settled across digital offices worldwide. As reported by Pivot to AI, entire categories of work ground to a halt. Not just coding, copy-writing, or planning, but something deeper: a synthetic hum of productivity stopped, revealing just how hollow some tasks had become.

But instead of panic, let’s take this moment as an invitation. What if we set aside one day per week, for instance Friday, to go AI-free? Not out of fear or neo-Luddite sentiment of rejecting the recent developments of AI, but as a practice of digital hygiene and a detox of cognition. It is all too easy to forgo the cognitively taxing process of critical and innovative thinking and just let AI handle it, but reclaiming a day to maintain those skills and to dive deep into human thinking is worth celebrating.

The Coin Flip Principle: Emotion as a Compass

Click here to read the full article: https://helheimlabs.ai/blog/2025/06/18/friday-ai-detox-reclaiming-thought-in-the-age-of-infinite-ai/

Adversarial testing of AI is not optional @Public Exposure

Written by Satu Korhonen & Silvan Gebhardt 10th of June 2025

AI Systems Fail Differently

Consider this: a large language model greenlights a malicious URL because it looks like a familiar domain. A coding assistant suggests a firewall rule that exposes the wrong port, not from a bug, but because it misunderstood your intent. Another model recommends uploading sensitive logs to Pastebin, while a fourth suggests hardcoding access credentials directly into a Git repository.

These aren’t edge cases; they are real events we’ve seen in the field. What makes these AI systems so dangerous is their ability to be confidently and convincingly wrong. This isn’t a simple usability flaw—it’s a security risk with consequences that scale with the AI’s role. A flawed coding assistant creates vulnerabilities. A flawed AI companion can have devastating, real-world impacts, including a documented case that contributed to a teenager’s suicide.

Yet many teams skip the step designed to catch these failures: adversarial testing.

What Adversarial Testing Is (and What It Isn’t)

Adversarial testing is a unique discipline that probes how an AI system behaves under stress, misuse, or malicious intent. It must not be confused with quality assurance or red teaming, as it’s not a predictable, checklist-based task but a dynamic search for unexpected failures.

Click here to read the full article: https://public-exposure.inform.social/post/adversarial-testing-of-ai-is-not-optional/

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