James O'Reilly

February 18, 2026

You ship code you never read?!

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Using AI to code is a door opener for many people, bridging the gap between ideation and building to the masses in the most accessible way

That's what I love about it

Late 2025 blindfold coding a la OpenClaw/Ralph Loop however is the wrong direction

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OpenAI buying OpenClaw is great marketing on Twitter, but sends the wrong signal to both newcomers and seasoned pros

Not needing to read or write code doesn't give you an excuse you stop caring about security and privacy of people's data and the tools you give them

Not spending time coding should give you extra time to care about those things

These new tools that provide blindfold coding were themselves blindfold coded

OpenClaw has (so far) 6 open CVEs, 341 malicious skills, 135K exposed instances, 1.5M leaked tokens

If the tools themselves are unsafe, and the "product manager" isn't reading the code, subsequent products they produce will inherently be dangerous

About James O'Reilly

Software developer and creator of Hazumi News for iOS and Web.