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How to Stop Your AI Coding Assistant From Leaking Your Secrets

Raymond on October 8, 2026

A developer at a laptop with a glowing shield gate catching a stray key before it leaves the machine

AI coding assistants are brilliant at moving fast — which is exactly how an API key ends up pasted into a chat or committed to a public repo. Here’s a plain, layered way to put automatic guardrails between your AI helper and your secrets.

Slopsquatting: When Your AI Coding Assistant Invents a Package Name and an Attacker Is Waiting

Raymond on September 8, 2026

A glowing AI assistant handing a developer a package-shaped box of light with a hidden hook inside, illustrating a slopsquatting trap

Ask an AI coding assistant for the right library and sometimes it confidently names one that doesn’t exist. Attackers noticed. They’re registering those hallucinated package names and waiting for you to run install. It’s called slopsquatting, it’s disturbingly predictable, and here’s exactly how to keep it out of your projects.

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