What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #72 – S3E24 Balancing AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Software Engineering, Unlearning, and Ecosystem Sustainability with Mark Russinovich
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In this episode of What’s in the SOSS? , host CRob sits down with Mark Russinovich – CTO and Deputy CISO of Azure, as well as Board Chair for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) – for a wide-ranging conversation on the changing landscape of software security.
Mark shares insights from his journey from Sysinternals to Azure leadership, exploring how generative AI is delivering dramatic productivity boosts while creating new talent pipeline challenges for early-in-career engineers.
The discussion dives into the shift toward hardware-backed “what, not who” supply chain identity, the urgent rolling Y2K effort to fix AI-discovered vulnerabilities via initiatives like Akrites, and the reality of persistent AI hallucinations.