March 2026, continued 54

  1. Agents & Tooling

    Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions

    Claude Code's new auto mode sits between handholding and chaos. It's the first honest attempt at solving the autonomy problem in developer tools.

    1 min read

  2. Security & Risk

    Your Agents Need a Black Box

    Vorlon's AI Agent Flight Recorder brings forensics to agentic systems. When your agent goes wrong, you'll want to know what happened — not guess.

    1 min read

  3. Working with AI

    SoN Vol 2, Issue 12: The Yes Machine (Free Edition)

    The Yes Machine (Free Edition) Hey there, The Yes Machine Your AI agrees with everything you say. That’s not a compliment. I wrote about AI sycophancy back in Issue 13, almost a…

    3 min read

  4. Agents & Tooling

    Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.

    Mozilla's cq gives AI coding agents dynamic, evolving context — formalizing what power users already figured out through trial and error.

    1 min read

  5. Security & Risk

    The Yes Machine Gets a Live Demo

    A Zenity CTO demo at RSAC 2026 showed agents being hijacked with zero user interaction — exactly what 'trained to be helpful' looks like.

    1 min read

  6. Security & Risk

    When Cisco Validates Your CLAUDE.md

    Cisco's new MCP security gateway is the enterprise version of what power users already built out of necessity.

    1 min read

  7. Agents & Tooling

    Sora Shipped. Nobody Needed It.

    OpenAI is shutting down Sora three months after a Disney deal. The AI graveyard keeps filling up with technically impressive things nobody asked for.

    1 min read

  8. Working with AI

    4.4 Million People Just Watched the Sycophancy Problem in Action

    Senator Bernie Sanders interviewed Claude on camera about AI privacy. Claude agreed with everything he said. That's not a revelation — it's the problem.

    1 min read

  9. Security & Risk

    Someone Finally Built the Agent Security Layer That Actually Matters

    Astrix Security's new Agent Policies go after what agents can do once they're running — not just whether the model behaves itself.

    1 min read

  10. Security & Risk

    82% of Execs Feel Protected. 88% Have Had Incidents.

    BeyondTrust's Phantom Labs data reveals the confidence gap at the heart of enterprise AI security — and the numbers are not subtle.

    1 min read

  11. Agents & Tooling

    Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago

    The Perplexity CTO says MCP eats 40-50% of your context window. Practitioners already knew this.

    1 min read

  12. Security & Risk

    Google's Free AI Comes With a Price

    Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature just expanded to all free U.S. users — connecting AI to Gmail, Photos, and Chrome browsing history.

    1 min read

  13. Agents & Tooling

    When Knuth Writes a Paper About You

    Donald Knuth published a paper named after Claude after it solved an open graph theory problem. That's a different kind of validation than a benchmark score.

    1 min read

  14. Agents & Tooling

    Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away

    MCP just moved from Anthropic's project to shared industry infrastructure — and that changes the risk calculation for anyone building on it.

    1 min read

  15. Security & Risk

    We Gave AI Agents Keys to the House. Visa Wants to Give Them a Credit Card.

    Visa is testing AI agent payment authorization. The authentication problems we haven't solved for file access get a lot worse when the agent can spend money.

    1 min read

  16. Security & Risk

    The Attack Surface Is the Feature

    Three chained vulnerabilities in Claude.ai show that when your AI reads the web, the web can give it orders.

    1 min read

  17. Security & Risk

    AI Agent Security Is Doing the Deploy-First Thing Again

    MCP is six months old and already has a CVSS 9.4 vulnerability. The security industry is scrambling. We've been here before.

    1 min read

  18. Security & Risk

    The Confident Answer Isn't Always the Right One

    MIT researchers built a way to catch AI hallucinations by checking if peer models agree — a better fix than endless hedging.

    1 min read

  19. Agents & Tooling

    WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates

    AI agents can now write and publish directly to WordPress. Quality control just became the only thing that matters.

    1 min read

  20. Agents & Tooling

    The Wrench Is Now on Your Phone

    Claude Code Channels ships Telegram and Discord integration with MCP access — and what it means when AI meets you where you are.

    1 min read