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One question I’d ask every team building agents
Your AI Passed the Test. Did It Do the Job? At the recent AI Conference, Ion Stoica described a coding agent that made a key-value store, a simple database, roughly six times faster. It passed the…
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I changed my mind about world models
What If AI Builds the Robot Instead of Controlling It? Last year I wrote about robotics moving from bespoke machines toward reusable foundation models, essentially an attempt to build a general-purpose robot brain. More recently, I…
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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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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 I would rather not send proprietary code, unpublished plans, or knowledge about how a…
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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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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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why your data stack is about to get less forgiving
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…
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so Google just paid $10 million for an airline’s Teams messages
When Work History Becomes an AI Asset Google recently agreed to pay $10 million for the internal business data of Spirit Airlines. The airline is bankrupt, but its emails, Teams messages, software, spreadsheets, and operating records…
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Your AI model is a rental (but the loop is an asset)
Self-Improvement Without the Science Fiction A few weeks ago I wrote about AI systems that keep learning after deployment instead of treating every interaction as a fresh start. That prompted a few readers to ask about…
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if everyone rents the same intelligence, what’s left?
Your Model Is Not Your Moat In a recent article, I wrote about companies turning their own data, workflows, and production feedback into specialized intelligence they increasingly control. The deeper idea was compounding. What matters is…
