Anthropic Launches "Code Review" to Fix AI Code Security Issues

**Jayden Shafer** (0:00)
Welcome to the podcast, I'm your host, Jayden Shafer. Today on the podcast, we're talking about a new tool that Anthropic has just launched. Basically, we have this issue where 70 on some companies, 90% in other companies, percent of all of their code is being generated by AI. And Anthropic has just launched a new co-review tool that is going to be able to check this massive flood of AI-generated code to see what's good, what's not. And I think this is going to be awesome for developers, but also for all of us users of the software there's a lot of cool implications and a lot of stuff that I am excited about. So I want to break down everything going on here because I think we're about to get a lot less buggy software. A lot of the software is going to get a lot more usable. Developers are obviously going to be rejoicing, but there's also some pullbacks to all of this. So I'm going to talk about all of that. Before we do, I actually have a request to make. This week is actually my birthday week. I am turning 30 I'm super excited. It's crazy. It feels weird turning 30, but there is one request I would ask for my birthday, if you would not mind. And this is something that I'm not going to beg you for the rest of my life for, but for my birthday week, this is the thing. I'm never going to plug my company AI box. I'm just going to ask for this. If you could leave a rating and review on this show for my birthday week, it would be amazing. This is something that I've spent the last three years of my life almost every day uploading a podcast episode to this. So if you've gotten any value at any point in the last three years, if you're a new listener, if you haven't already, this is the time to do it. It is my birthday week. I'm turning 30 I would super, super appreciate a review on the podcast. And as a celebration, and I don't know what you want to call this, but as a fun way to say thank you, I will actually be reading the most recent reviews, the good and the bad, the five star and the one star reviews that I've gotten and I'll give you a quick response. And this is something I don't usually do, especially if I get a one star review, I'm not going to sit there and argue with the person. If you want to move on from the show, that's cool. If you get value out of it, it's cool. But because we're doing this for this one week, this is kind of like review week, this is what I'm dubbing it. I'm going to read it. So we're kicking this off with one of my most recent reviews I got. This was on March 2nd, and it is a one star review. So fair warning, this is a one star review. And this is what it said. It said, it's from Hamacham. And he says, stop the Islamophobia. When was the last time you heard about Saudi Arabia being an enemy to the US? This is a one star review. I think this review is specifically responding to my Opening AI Steals $200 million contract in Anthropic vs Pentagon battle. And basically what happens, well, you guys all know, I think there's a lot of emotions are high. We have Anthropic that has this whole battle with the Pentagon, and then Opening AI comes in and jumps in and steals it. And this is like right before Iran gets invaded. I'm not exactly sure what I said in this podcast that got, I don't know, made this person so upset to say it was Islamophobic. I think, I mean, evidently from this, I was probably criticizing the country of Saudi Arabia, which by the way, I think Saudi Arabia generally is like a good partner to the US as an ally. We buy all of their oil, even if you hate them because of how their government is set up. We buy their oil, we use their oil, so we get a lot of value out of that partnership. We send them a lot of military supplies. They're kind of an ally in that region.
So generally, I'm happy with that. And I actually almost took funding from a huge Saudi Arabian, kind of like an incubator over there, and I actually almost went and moved to Saudi Arabia for three months. My wife, we got as few kids, so my wife at the end of the day didn't want to have to go to an apartment in Saudi Arabia for a few months for that program, so never know I'm doing it. But I've considered it. I think Saudi Arabia is generally good. The only response I'll say on that is obviously, whatever I said wasn't Islamophobic, since I'm not as long phobic. I think all people with all their beliefs and religions, awesome since I have my own. But what I will say is I would just encourage that person or anyone listening, don't get misconstrued if I'm going to criticize the country of Saudi Arabia, especially when I'm criticizing countries in relation typically to AI policy into being Islamophobic or disliking your culture or whatever. I don't know. I just think that's pretty shallow take. I'm going to criticize every government if I think they're not doing something smart, including the US government. My goal is to be unbiased and academically honest. Alright, thanks for listening to my rant. If you could leave a comment or review for this one review week for my birthday, I would super appreciate it. Let's get into the episode. So, I think right now pure feedback has been one of the most important but kind of tricky. It's kind of the safeguard basically in software development. It helps teams catch bugs early, and you can also keep your consistency across your whole code base. You can improve the overall quality of all of the software that you're shipping. This is something that we see with my startup AI box all the time. I think right now we're doing all of this vibe coding. Even myself, I have tons of vibe coded projects on the side. Unfortunately, it's sometimes hard to productize them because of tricky nasty bugs in there, and if you're not a developer, it's hard to catch, find, and fix them. And so I think where developers use a lot of AI tools to generate, like Claude Code or any of these other players, Codex from OpenAI, we're generating tons of code right now, and that's also really cheap and really fun and really fast.