Rene Brandel
Rene Brandel is the Cofounder & CEO of Casco. Before Casco, he was the Head of Product at AWS and inventor of "Kiro" - AWS' agentic IDE. He has a long-standing passion for AI, cloud, and developer tools. In fact, he won Europe's largest hackathon in 2016 with a voice-to-code agent before generative AI became a common-place technology.
Session
10-04
10:00
25min
How we hacked YC Spring 2025 batch’s AI agents
Rene Brandel
We hacked 7 of the16 publicly-accessible YC X25 AI agents. This allowed us to leak user data, execute code remotely, and take over databases. All within 30 minutes each. In this session, we'll walk through the common mistakes these companies made and how you can mitigate these security concerns before your agents put your business at risk.
ENG 103