Author: Ben Lorica
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What I learned from companies training their own models
The Model Factory Matters More Than the Model A couple of months ago, I wrote about the growing post-training stack that lets teams turn general-purpose models into something better suited to their own work. I recently…
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Local AI Is a Routing Problem, Not a Privacy Feature
I’ve had a longstanding interest in local AI for a simple reason. I would rather not send proprietary code, unpublished plans, or knowledge about how a business operates to an outside model provider when I have…
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The local AI question I had backwards
Local AI Is a Routing Problem, Not a Privacy Feature I’ve had a longstanding interest in local AI for a simple reason. I would rather not send proprietary code, unpublished plans, or knowledge about how a…
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Eight Security Assumptions AI Agents Quietly Break
If you check Ethics.Dev regularly, you may have noticed how often AI agents and cybersecurity have been colliding lately. Some of the stories sound straight out of movies: agents escaping test environments, communicating through channels nobody…
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I keep thinking about these 17,600 attempts
Eight Security Assumptions AI Agents Quietly Break If you check Ethics.Dev regularly, you may have noticed how often AI agents and cybersecurity have been colliding lately. Some of the stories sound straight out of movies: agents…
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The AI Data Problem Moved Downstream
Last year I wrote that robotics had a data problem language models were lucky enough to avoid. Text, images, and code had accumulated for decades before anyone decided to train models on them. Robots had no…
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Something changed in how AI gets fed
The AI Data Problem Moved Downstream Last year I wrote that robotics had a data problem language models were lucky enough to avoid. Text, images, and code had accumulated for decades before anyone decided to train…
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Six Reasons I Think Open AI Models Will Win
In my conversations with developers and AI teams, I’m struck by how many are exploring moving more of their inference workloads to open models. I’ve touched on some of their reasons before , but here I…
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Not Every AI Task Needs an LLM
LLMs are built to generate text, but a surprising amount of AI automation does not need text at all. It needs a small decision: Is this spam? Which team should get this ticket? How urgent is…
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Stale Data Used to Be Annoying
Imagine a procurement agent checking inventory and deciding that stock has fallen below the reorder threshold. It places another order. The problem is that a large delivery was recorded a few minutes earlier, and the copy…
