Three Thoughts on Dark Code

A couple of weeks ago Dan Shapiro's blog post " The 5 Levels" (about Agentic Engineering) did the rounds. He coined Level 5 the "Dark Software Factory". So what comes out of those factories? I'm calling it Dark Code. Dark Code : lines of software that no human has written, read or even reviewed. Two weeks ago I presented a talk " Mapping out Dark Code " at the OpenAI Codex meetup in Amsterdam, and…