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How do you know your AI agents are actually correct? With Dylan Williams from Spectrum Security / Defender Fridays [#312]

17 Apr 2026 · 33 min · S5 E312

Today, Dylan Williams, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at Spectrum Security, joins Defender Fridays to dig into that exact problem: self-evaluating agents, trajectory analysis, and what improvement looks like in production.

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• https://www.spectrum.security/
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• https://limacharlie.io/
• https://docs.limacharlie.io/
• https://x.com/limacharlieio
• https://community.limacharlie.com/

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