Security & Risk
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What breaks, who is liable, and what an agent can reach once it is already inside.
Start with: Your AI Assistant Can't Tell You From an Attacker →
Signal Over Noise by Jim Christian · Deconstructing the tech hype.
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- Agents & Tooling
Steam saved a 60 fps cap for 112 games. The Performance panel still showed 144
An AI agent changed a setting on my Legion Go, and Steam's config file showed it saved. A screenshot of the settings panel showed it hadn't taken effect. Anything new or recently adjusted needs oversight.
- Agents & Tooling
Give a shared AI assistant a weekly checkup, and keep what it adds terse
Once a week, ask the assistant your team shares what would improve its instructions. Keep any rules it adds succinct, and give the bot two human owners.
- Working with AI
Ask your AI to save its work as files
I've kept a daily log in a file since the early days of using models, so I can switch models or start a new chat and pick up where I was. Ask for your work as files, and keep them in named folders.
- Agents & Tooling
Plan big, do small
A big model should plan the work and find the tools, libraries and free databases that already exist. Smaller models, or programs on your own computer, do what I like to call the donkey work.
- Agents & Tooling
School family knowledge base, part 2
Part 2 of a build log about a school family knowledge base: what information each of the eight sources holds, and the format it arrives in.
- Agents & Tooling
School family knowledge base, part 1
Schools send us information in eight places. That's a lot of channels for parents to coordinate and understand. Part 1 of a build log: the main issue, and how the tasks have to be broken down.
- Agents & Tooling
Logo.dev Returns a Company's Logo From Its Web Address, and Its MCP Server Lets Claude Fetch It
Logo.dev returns a company's logo, colours and brand details from its web address. Here is what it does, how to connect it to Claude, and what to use it for.
- Agents & Tooling
When Gemini Runs Claude, What Are You Buying?
Google’s workplace agent can use models from more than one provider. I want to know what happens to my instructions, files and work history when I switch.
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