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- The Industry
The Best Model Nobody Uses
The FT reports Anthropic's most capable model is struggling for users while cheaper tools take the bulk of real work.
- Building
The File That Fixes Your AI's Code Style
Fabien Sanglard wrote down the code-style corrections he kept repeating to his AI coding agent, and put them in the file the tool loads at startup.
- Agents & Tooling
What a Climbing Harness Tells You About AI Agents
The word "harness" has been used in AI tooling for months without a clear definition. Earendil finally gives one.
- Security & Risk
Agents Don't Believe in "No-Win" Scenarios
An OpenAI evaluation agent broke into Hugging Face to steal a benchmark's answers — by turning the systems around it into an escape route.
- Agents & Tooling
Cloudflare built the agent cloud in a week — and kept the human at the controls
Cloudflare's Agents Week shipped a full stack for AI agents: a runtime, an identity, a wallet, a route onto the web, and the security around it.
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 2.31: Don't be a meat proxy
A meat proxy forwards an AI's answer without reading it. That hands the next person more work than the question did.
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Usage Up, Trust Down Is the Number to Watch
Stack Overflow's survey found AI usage climbing from 76% to 84% while trust fell from 40% to 29%.
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The COBOL Paper Everyone Shared Is About the Oracle, Not the Migration
A new arXiv paper on COBOL-to-Java migration got passed around as 'AI ported the code, bugs included'. Read it and it's the opposite.
- Security & Risk
GCC Drew the AI Line at Fifteen Lines
The GCC steering committee will decline any legally significant contribution containing LLM-generated code — and put a number on 'significant'.
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- Working with AI
SoN 2.30: Which of your AI's rules are still doing a job?
Last week's advice and Anthropic's both hold. The test is one question you can ask about any rule you've written.
- Security & Risk
96% of CISOs Now Own AI Risk. A Quarter of Them Thought About Leaving.
The liability numbers going round this week are real, but they were measured a year ago — before an autonomous agent broke into a production company.
- Security & Risk
16.7% of AI Spend Now Goes to Governance. Careful What You Compare It To.
IDC has turned agent governance into a budget line. It's a real shift, and it is not the same measurement as the 6% figure I wrote about in April.
- Security & Risk
74% Say They're Audit-Ready for AI. The Number That Matters Is 78 Against 22.
Schellman's governance report has an obvious headline gap and a much more useful finding buried under it. Worth reading with one eye on who commissioned it.
- Security & Risk
Hugging Face Published the Whole Timeline. The Part That Stuck With Me Was the Refusal.
17,600 attacker actions reconstructed in public. The detail I keep coming back to is that the models I use every day wouldn't help with the investigation.
- Security & Risk
The open-source argument I'd been missing
In June I wrote about Banco Santander open-sourcing its AI tooling — the bank published the code that tests whether its own models discriminate against people. I gave the usual…
- Security & Risk
OpenAI Published Its Homework on Exactly the Question I Keep Asking
Codex Security is worth taking seriously precisely because it reads as an admission. It also leaves the harder half of the problem completely uncovered.
- Working with AI
From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
Who's allowed to build software has changed hands three or four times in a decade. Grok Build is the latest handoff.
- Working with AI
The Donkey Work Doesn't Need a Genius
A $500 fine-tune of a 9B open model beat every frontier model on a catalogue-review task. I haven't trained anything.
- Security & Risk
The Share Button Is a Publish Button
600 Claude conversations turned up in Google because a shared page shipped without a noindex tag. Nobody got hacked.
