2026-07-01
No AI Agent Without Identity (Part 5): Auditability and the Minimum Bar for Governed Autonomy
Part 5 of a 5-part series on agentic AI governance. This article defines the minimum bar for governed AI autonomy: stable agent identity, ownership, runtime lineage, policy decisions, supervision mode,...
Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself To Its Charge Puck
Hacks don’t have to be practical but it helps if they are educational or clever or amusing, as [Ray Foss] demonstrates with his auto-docking Steam Controller. It’s an open-source web...
R.A.I.L
To coincide with the launch of Richard Hewison's excellent new Kickstarter project, "Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software", we are taking the opportunity to preserve and share a fascinating piece...
The Compounding Latency Crisis of Multi-Step AI Workflows
Chaining multiple LLM calls, vector database lookups, and API tools creates a severe performance bottleneck, dragging response times from seconds to minutes. Every sequential step introduces extra network and token...
What 500 People Taught Me About AI That Nobody Else is Talking About
500 people. 20 hours. 3 lessons about AI that nobody talks about — and why the barrier was never the technology.
A Black Box Made Less Opaque (part 4)
Understanding the effects of compression on model performance and interpretabilityI. Executive summaryThis is the fourth installment in a series of analyses exploring basic AI interpretability mechanics and techniques. While this...
The Once and Present Fable (Fable 5 restoration linkpost)
After weeks of government intervention, our beloved Fable 5 has been restored, with safeguards co-developed by the government and 50% weekly usage caps until July 7. Link to announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5Discuss
LTX-2.3-3DREAL-LoRA Turns 3D Renders Into Photoreal Video
LTX-2.3-3DREAL-LoRA converts 3D renders, Blender blockouts and game engine footage into photorealistic videos.
Inside My Strange Chat With a Pro-Israel Textbot
A strange text from “Emma” opens a rabbit hole into AI political outreach, foreign agent rules, and chatbot disclosure laws.
Why Global Fetch Defaults Can Leak API Tokens
Global API defaults can silently leak auth headers across services. Here’s how isolated client configs prevent that risk.
The Hidden Liability Behind AI-Assisted Coding
The backlash against vibe coding is justified, just that the reasoning for it isn’t. Here’s the actual case against vibe coding no one is making.
No laptop? No problem. Code on the Go brings the debugger to your phone.
Traditional Android debugging assumes you have both a computer and a phone. Code on the Go changes that by bringing the entire debugging workflow onto a single Android device. This...
How I Engineered a 1.7M Row Product Safety Database to Serve Pages in 66ms on a Single Free VM
How LemonKnows scaled 1.7M PostgreSQL rows, 41,000 recalls, and 7-language support on a free 6GB ARM server with 66ms page loads.
When APIs, Clients, and Infrastructure Are All Right—but the System Is Wrong
This article discusses key software engineering concepts, including development methodologies, testing, automation, code quality, and best practices for delivering scalable and maintainable software solutions.
How to Count Gemini Tokens Locally
This article explores how Gemini tokenizes data and demonstrates how to count or estimate tokens locally. You'll learn how to use the local tokenizer to estimate text token counts offline,...
Fraud Has Moved Outside the Bank. Protection Should Too
Banks are investing heavily in cybersecurity and fraud detection, but AI-powered social engineering attacks increasingly happen outside their systems through calls, messages, emails, and social media. Leading institutions like JPMorgan...
When should you know the point?
Talking to a friend today, she complained about someone wanting her help with a project when that person didn’t even know what the point of the project was. Prima facie...
Building Automated Internal Linking Architectures for High-Volume Content Clusters
Manual linking doesn't scale. Build programmatic, tag-based semantic architectures to automate internal linking, improve site crawlability, and boost authority flow across massive content clusters.
A CERN for AI is a distraction; push for an IAEA instead
TL;DR: There are many conceivable versions of a “CERN for AI.” But the version that seems politically realistic (a new catch-up lab) probably would not do much for safety, while...
AI Won't Replace Product Managers. It Will Call Out the Ones Who Were Coasting.
AI is not the threat to product management. Complacency is. When execution becomes cheap and fast, the only thing that remains scarce is the quality of the decision that precedes...
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