The a16z Show · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
DataDog has developed an internal 'judge' tool that evaluates the intent behind pieces of code, helping to identify malicious activity. This judge was initially built to scale the review of third-party code contributions and has since been applied to detect supply chain attacks.
“My team built a judge that evaluates the intent behind a piece of code, like, is this thing meant to do harm or not.”
“So we built it because for the longest time, DataDog, for those who don't know, we have a DataDog agent. We take third-party code contributions to it, saying like integrations and what have you.”
“So we built this judge by we, I mean, my team, I don't do anything that got really good at it.”