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July 2026, continued 26
- Working with AI
Rehearse the Deck You Didn't Write
The illusion of explanatory depth is what happens when the first test of your understanding is live, in front of people.
- Working with AI
Kimi K3 Is Open. I Still Can't Run It.
2.8 trillion parameters, 1.4 terabytes of memory to run it. Open weights existing and open weights being usable have stopped being the same claim.
- The Industry
Does the AI Capital Spend Actually Pencil Out?
$1.3 trillion sunk, $2 trillion in new revenue needed to break even, and none of it tells you whether the tool you're paying for this week is earning its keep.
- Security & Risk
"AI Found a Security Bug" Is the Wrong Headline
Claude found a real improved attack on HAWK and a new technique against reduced-round AES-128. The interesting part isn't that it found them.
- Security & Risk
SoN 2.29: Agents reading your passwords? Would you let them?
My AI's been getting into my password manager for months. The setup that makes that safe — and what this week's headlines get wrong.
- Security & Risk
The ACM's Caution About LLMs Is Starting to Have a Cost
The ACM held its peer-reviewed library back from AI systems. Scott Delman's argument is that staying cautious doesn't prevent the bad outcome.
- Agents & Tooling
Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
"The best notepad for you and your agents." Hubble designs the note format around a second reader from the start.
- Security & Risk
Substack Writers, You Need a Website
Substack is a distribution tool, not a home. A 478-point Hacker News post makes the case for POSSE — publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere else.
- Agents & Tooling
Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
Anthropic made its Economic Index queryable in plain language inside Claude. The anxious question about your own field is now a research task.
- Security & Risk
The Text Your Agent Reads Isn't the Text You See
Your AI can read instructions that are invisible to you. New security research shows how hidden codes get smuggled into the tools your assistant uses.
- Working with AI
Tell AI What You Want and Who You Are
Two takes on the same idea — the ASD-STE100 controlled-English standard and the i-have-adhd Claude Code skill — on giving your AI a writing system.
- Working with AI
SoN 2.28: "That's good, how can we make it better?"
When I think about AI and automation, I see an opportunity opening up that goes well beyond the chatbots everyone’s being handed — well beyond prompting, too. One of the most…
- Working with AI
Paperwork Shot List
A shot list for the paperwork This week I’ve spent five hours or more in the car, driving between schools to move our kid from one to another for the new school year. It’s a mixed…
- Security & Risk
SoN 2.27: I Just Talked With Someone Else's Vault
More than twenty years ago, I sat with a class of eleven- and twelve-year-olds and tried to show them what “connected to the internet” actually meant. We went looking on the…
- Working with AI
The model of the week changes by Thursday
Two headlines are eating the feeds this morning, and both have the shelf life of milk. Anthropic extended Claude Fable 5 to every paid plan through July 12 — a few more days with…
- Security & Risk
SoN 2.26: The best AI models are getting harder to get
Tales from the Workbench =================================================== Some weeks the newsletter is one idea worked all the way through when time affords it. This week it’s…
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- Security & Risk
Where You Keep the Final Say
I keep a tool wired into my AI setup that can read the actual text of Spanish law — the BOE, the official state gazette. In layperson terms it’s a connector (an “MCP server”) that…
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 2.25: Stop guessing and use AI to pull the data
Stop guessing and pull the actual data =================================================== I help out a small, volunteer-run cat rescue. They do good work, and they post on…
- Agents & Tooling
Digging into Banco Santander's AI Tooling
Two years ago, around thirty million Santander customers had their records put up for sale on a hacking forum: names, card numbers, and more. The cause was a contractor’s cloud…
- Agents & Tooling
Open Knowledge Format
This week Google Cloud released the Open Knowledge Format. It’s plain markdown files with a short labelled header — a few fields like type, tags and a link (they call it YAML…
