[djeastm]

One mitigation might be to use one company's model to check the work of another company's code and depend on market competition to keep the checks and balances.

[just6979]

Then how many models deep do you go before it's more cost effective to just hire a junior dev, supply them with a list of common backdoors, and have them scan the code?

[thefz]

What about writing the actual code yourself

[just6979]

Nah, more fun to burn money.