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AI is changing software security faster than most engineering teams are prepared for.

In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down how AI agents are starting to discover and exploit vulnerabilities, why the window between a CVE being disclosed and actively exploited is shrinking, and what that means for developers, security teams, and companies shipping software today.

We also discuss new findings around OpenAI’s AI agent swarms, concerns around observability and model behavior, major data breaches involving identity verification providers, and why digital privacy is becoming even harder to protect.

Beyond security, we get into how AI is reshaping software engineering itself, including the impact on frontend developers, Meta’s push toward smaller engineering teams, local LLMs running directly in the browser with WebGPU, and why human error can still take down even the most resilient cloud infrastructure.

Topics covered:
• AI agents and autonomous hacking
• OpenAI swarm security concerns
• CVEs and faster vulnerability exploitation
• Software supply chain and cybersecurity risks
• Data breaches and identity verification
• Privacy and age verification
• The future of frontend engineering
• AI-driven software development
• Meta engineering layoffs and productivity
• WebLLM and local AI inference
• Google Cloud outages and infrastructure resilience

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This week on Last Week in Tech, we’re talking about what happens when memory gets expensive and software can’t afford to stay bloated.

RAM prices are climbing fast, Android is tightening memory limits, and companies like Cloudflare are squeezing huge amounts of memory out of their systems through better data structures and smarter engineering. The bigger question is whether memory efficiency is becoming a functional requirement again.

We also cover OpenAI cutting Cursor off after its acquisition by SpaceX AI, Nvidia’s reported move for Hugging Face, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter, why the harness around an AI model may matter more than the model itself, and whether AI is slowly eroding the fundamentals developers used to learn through experience.

Plus, we get into developer security hygiene, Chrome privacy, the growing number of CVEs, and Meta’s massive settlement over teen social media usage.

If you’re a developer, this episode is really about one broader shift: the constraints are coming back, and they may force us to build better software.

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In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest AI and software engineering stories from the week, including Anthropic’s explosive revenue growth, Cursor’s new Git hosting platform, Lovable moving away from Next.js, and the growing cost of AI inside companies.

We discuss why Anthropic’s reported $65B annualized revenue run rate is impressive but difficult to compare directly with OpenAI, and whether today’s AI valuations are sustainable as inference costs remain high.

We also look at Cursor Origin, a new Git hosting platform built for the AI coding era, after GitHub experienced major scaling pressure from rapidly increasing commit volume. Then we cover Lovable’s migration from Next.js to TanStack, why the company chose to rebuild its own product using its own platform, and what that says about the future of modern web development.

Other topics include Google buying Spirit Airlines’ operational data for AI training, AI agents accidentally DDoSing services and interfering with each other, questions around legal accountability for autonomous agents, AT&T processing 45 billion AI tokens per day, the rise of “AI Didn’t Read,” and how companies are starting to measure whether their AI spending is actually creating value.

If you’re interested in AI coding tools, Cursor, GitHub, Anthropic, Claude, Lovable, Next.js, TanStack, AI agents, software engineering, developer tools, and the economics of AI, this episode covers what’s changing and why it matters for developers.