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Agents coordinated a Hugging Face breach through the package repository meant to contain them. Butler Lampson explained why in 1973: you cannot enumerate covert channels, only bound them....
Cutting through AI hype with practical observations. What works, what doesn't, and what the vendors aren't telling you.
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LLMs are amoral pattern engines that will confidently lie because confident lies were in the training data.
Agents coordinated a Hugging Face breach through the package repository meant to contain them. Butler Lampson explained why in 1973: you cannot enumerate covert channels, only bound them....
100 GPU marketplace rentals, 62 never delivered a working GPU. What cheap GPU marketplaces really cost, and the fail-fast discipline that held 62 failures to $4.37....
LLM Lab (watchitlearn.com): real gradient descent in a browser tab, training machinery honest enough to fail in public, and a diploma that tells the truth....
Humanoid robot companies hide human teleoperation behind impressive demos. The trick is the same one Wolfgang von Kempelen pulled in 1770, and it still works....
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health promises to improve on Dr. Google with AI-powered medical guidance. But 56-72% accuracy isn't good enough when health is on the line....
How to architect AI trust with deterministic guardrails: Pydantic validators, Redis kill switches, and OAuth scopes....
California, Texas and Colorado each passed their own AI laws. A federal executive order now threatens preemption. Who is caught in it....
Prospects now research with AI before talking to sales. Your digital presence is your first impression....
AI coding assistants promised 55% productivity gains but METR found developers are 19% slower....
Fine-tuning creates models that know things. RAG creates systems that look things up....
42% of companies abandon AI initiatives before production, and MIT found 95% of organisations getting zero return on generative AI....
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027....
