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Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona
A Hirundo case study reports that Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct produced more exploitable code when the prompt named customers opposed by Beijing: apps for a US defense contractor were 19% more likely to be hackable, and apps for a Hong Kong democracy group leaked user secrets 28% more often, with prompt-level security instructions failing to close the gap. Hirundo claims its 'Westernized' version, with CCP alignment removed from the weights, eliminated these gaps while matching the original's coding ability, and it is published on Hugging Face. The findings are vendor-pu…
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What to doIf you build with open-weight coding models, evaluate generated code under your real customer and topic personas and add human review of authentication and access-control code before production.
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