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rvzyesterday at 10:11 PM1 replyview on HN

This is just another "rebranding" of the failed "prompt engineering" trend to promote another borderline pseudo-scientific trend to attact more VC money to fund a new pyramid scheme.

Assuming that this will be using the totally flawed MCP protocol, I can only see more cases of data exfiltration attacks on these AI systems just like before [0] [1].

Prompt injection + Data exfiltration is the new social engineering in AI Agents.

[0] https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/security-advisory-...

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zero-click-ai...


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Zopieuxyesterday at 11:47 PM

Rediscovering basic security concepts and hygiene from 2005 is also a very hot AI thing right now, so that tracks.