JC-AI Newsletter #8

Author: Miro Wengner

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Fourteen days have passed, and it is time to present a fresh collection of readings that could influence developments in the field of artificial intelligence.

This newsletter focuses on examining how AI enhances productivity through enterprise studies, agentic system architecture, attack vectors, Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, Java code generation within IDEs, LLM benchmarking methodologies, and the security challenges arising from increased AI-LLM adoption.

The world influenced by LLM is changing very quickly, let’s start…

article: Antislop: A Comprehensive Framework for Identifying and Eliminating Repetitive Patterns in Language Models
authors: Samuel Paech, Allen Roush, Judah Goldfeder, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
date: 2025-10-16
desc.: Widespread LLM adoption has introduced characteristic repetitive phraseology, termed “slop” which degrades output quality and makes AI-generated text immediately recognizable. This paper presents Antislop, a comprehensive framework providing tools to detect and eliminate these overused patterns.
category: research

article: Toward Understanding Security Issues in the Model Context Protocol Ecosystem
authors: Xiaofan Li, Xing Gao
date: 2025-10-18
desc.: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open standard that enables AI-powered applications to interact with external tools through structured metadata, while lacking a sufficient standardization. This paper presents the first comprehensive security analysis of MCP ecosystems and uncovers a wide range of vulnerabilities.
category: research

article: The 4 Patterns of AI Native Development
authors: Patrick Debois
date: 2025-06-04
desc.: The presentation examines AI development evolution through the lens of previously observed cloud computing patterns. It introduces four AI-native development paradigms: 1. producer-to-manager, 2. implementation-to-intent, 3. delivery-to-discovery, and 4. content creation knowledge. While the framework appears to project development needs in a linear fashion, the presentation does not fully address the challenges associated with the nondeterministic behavior of LLMs, which affects all levels of project development.
category: youtube

article: Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity ? (100k Devs Study)
authors: Yegor Denisov-Blanch
date: 2025-07-23
desc.: The presentation addresses a critical question regarding the impact of AI-LLM utilization on project development. Data collected from 136 teams across 27 companies provides statistically significant findings. This dataset enables the formulation of hypotheses concerning the conditions under which AI-assisted coding delivers desired value. Standford University research.
category: youtube

article: MCP Security Bench (MSB): Benchmarking Attacks Against Model Context Protocol in LLM Agents
authors: Dongsen Zhang, Zekun Li, Xu Luo, Xuannan Liu and others
date: 2025-10-14
desc.: While Model Context Protocol (MCP) unlocks broad interoperability between agents, it notably extends the attack surface of agentic systems. This paper presents the MCP Security Benchmark, which aims to provide systematic measures of agent resistance against various forms of attacks. The paper discovers that models with stronger performance are more vulnerable to attacks due to various discussed reasons. The experiments demonstrate that MCP-specific vulnerabilities are highly exploitable. The paper provides a practical baseline for future research.
category: research

article: Formalizing the Safety, Security, and Functional Properties of Agentic AI Systems
authors: Edoardo Allegrini, Ananth Shreekumar, Z. Berkay Celik
date: 2025-10-15
desc.: This paper aims to address critical questions related to the utilization of safety protocols, security, and functionality of critical systems depending on LLMs. The current ecosystem of agent communication lacks standardization, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool access or the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols. This fragmentation creates a semantic gap that prevents rigorous analysis of system properties and introduces risks such as architectural misalignment and exploitable coordination issues. The paper proposes a domain-agnostic framework for semantic analysis and discusses future research directions.
category: research

article: Generative AI and the Transformation of Software Development Practices
authors: Vivek Acharya
date: 2025-10-12
desc.: The paper examines how AI-assisted techniques are transforming software engineering practices, alongside the emerging challenges of trust and hallucination. The paper considers current key concepts of LLM utilization, including multi-agents, dynamic prompt orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and assisted coding. The paper discusses psychological aspects of skill set transformation and identifies multiple areas for future investigation.
category: research

article: Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
authors: Hanlong Wan, Weili Xu, Michael Rosenberg, Jian Zhang, Aysha Siddika
date: 2025-10-03
desc.: The paper presents a novel agent-driven framework for Automated Code Review (ACR) that integrates Building Information Modeling (BIM) data extraction with agent-orchestrated workflows and existing check tool engines. The paper presents a case study developed in cooperation with the US Department of Energy.
category: research

article: When MCP Servers Attack: Taxonomy, Feasibility, and Mitigation
authors: Weibo Zhao, Jiahao Liu, Bonan Ruan, Shaofei Li, Zhenkai Liang
date: 2025-09-29
desc.: While Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers enable AI applications to connect to external systems in a plug-and-play manner, they create new attack vectors requiring consideration. The lack of standardized mechanisms increases this urgency. This paper addresses three research questions: 1. what types of attacks malicious MCP servers can launch, 2. how vulnerable MCP hosts and Large Language Models (LLMs) are to these attacks, and 3. how feasible these attacks are in practice. The paper proposes a component-based taxonomy comprising twelve attack categories.
category: research

article: Privacy in Action: Towards Realistic Privacy Mitigation and Evaluation for LLM-Powered Agents
authors: Shouju Wang, Fenglin Yu, Xirui Liu, Xiaoting Qin and others
date: 2025-09-22
desc.: The increasing autonomy of LLM agents in handling sensitive communications, accelerated by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A) frameworks, creates urgent privacy challenges. This paper presents PrivacyCheck, which aims to reduce privacy leakage from approximately 35% to 7%, depending on the model. The paper also proposes additional mitigation strategies to improve privacy in the emerging agentic ecosystem.
category: research

article: Cuckoo Attack: Stealthy and Persistent Attacks Against AI-IDE
authors: Xinpeng Liu, Junming Liu, Peiyu Liu, Han Zheng and others
date: 2025-09-19
desc.: The utilization of agentic AI systems introduces a new critical attack surface, including development environments (IDEs). The paper proposes the Cuckoo Attack, a novel attack capable of stealthy and persistent command execution by embedding malicious payloads into configuration files. The paper shows that the impact may extend beyond compromising the individual developer environment.
category: research

article: Tractable Asymmetric Verification for Large Language Models via Deterministic Replicability
authors: Zan-Kai Chong, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Bryan Ng
date: 2025-09-14
desc.: The landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs) is shifting rapidly toward dynamic, multi-agent systems. This introduces a fundamental challenge in establishing computational trust between agents to ensure that information is not corrupted. This paper introduces a probabilistic audit approach within a defined context to ensure information integrity in multi-agent systems. The paper presents simulation achievements and proposes directions for future research.
category: research

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