Decoder episode examines AI’s disruption of cybersecurity

Apple Podcasts lists the episode under the title “AI broke the cybersecurity world. Now what?” and gives its publication time as November 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM UTC.[1] The listing gives a runtime of 1 hour and 3 minutes.[1] It features security expert Alex Stamos.[1] The show’s listing says Decoder is updated semiweekly.[1]

The episode description says AI-boosted waves of hacks, breaches and attacks have left the cybersecurity industry, as it has been known, all but doomed.[1] It also says the disruption leaves openings for attackers while others scramble.[1] Stamos is described as direct and as someone who does not mince words.[1] The same description says he is not a doomer in the long run, while expecting a cybersecurity dark age before conditions improve.[1]

Techmeme describes the interview as covering AI-powered red teaming and vulnerabilities in legacy codebases.[4] The Verge describes Stamos as Cognition’s chief information security officer and a cybersecurity expert.[2] Axios reported that he joined Cognition as its chief security officer to help defend the company from cyberattacks and ship security products.[3]

Axios describes Cognition’s Devin as an autonomous AI software engineering tool that can write and ship code, debug programs and run commands.[3] Axios lists Mercedes-Benz, the U.S. Army and AT&T among Cognition’s customers.[3] The Verge’s episode description says AI enables both nation states and small hacker groups while cyber defenses lag.[2] Taken together, these details place the interview’s themes—attacks, defensive work and legacy code—alongside a company developing an AI software engineering tool.[3][4]