Insight
News and commentary: launches, papers, policy moves, and what I make of them.
125 posts
- Insight Usage Up, Trust Down Is the Number to Watch
- Insight The COBOL Paper Everyone Shared Is About the Oracle, Not the Migration
- Insight GCC Drew the AI Line at Fifteen Lines
- Insight 96% of CISOs Now Own AI Risk. A Quarter of Them Thought About Leaving.
- Insight 16.7% of AI Spend Now Goes to Governance. Careful What You Compare It To.
- Insight 74% Say They're Audit-Ready for AI. The Number That Matters Is 78 Against 22.
- Insight Hugging Face Published the Whole Timeline. The Part That Stuck With Me Was the Refusal.
- Insight OpenAI Published Its Homework on Exactly the Question I Keep Asking
- Insight From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
- Insight The Donkey Work Doesn't Need a Genius
- Insight The Share Button Is a Publish Button
- Insight Rehearse the Deck You Didn't Write
- Insight Kimi K3 Is Open. I Still Can't Run It.
- Insight Does the AI Capital Spend Actually Pencil Out?
- Insight "AI Found a Security Bug" Is the Wrong Headline
- Insight The ACM's Caution About LLMs Is Starting to Have a Cost
- Insight Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
- Insight Substack Writers, You Need a Website
- Insight Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
- Insight The Text Your Agent Reads Isn't the Text You See
- Insight Agent Security Just Got Real CVEs
- Insight 97% Expect a Breach. 6% Are Paying for It.
- Insight Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.
- Insight Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.
- Insight Agent Identity Is the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Admit
- Insight You Feel Faster. Are You?
- Insight Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
- Insight MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.
- Insight "Agentic" Is the New Cloud
- Insight Your AI Proxy Layer Just Became a Target
- Insight Your Code Review Process Isn't Built for This Volume
- Insight Grammarly's Lawsuit Is About Identity, Not Just Data
- Insight MCP Just Crossed the Chasm
- Insight The Safety Company Keeps Leaking
- Insight The Promises Failed, Not the Technology
- Insight Microsoft's Copilot Now Uses Two Models to Fact-Check One
- Insight The New Shadow IT Isn't Employees Using ChatGPT
- Insight Perplexity Pulled a Perk and Hoped Nobody Would Notice
- Insight Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
- Insight Your AI Provider's Ethics Are Now a Business Risk
- Insight Apple Just Validated Your Multi-AI Approach
- Insight The Money Just Noticed the Agent Security Problem
- Insight The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails
- Insight Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
- Insight Your Agents Need a Black Box
- Insight Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
- Insight The Yes Machine Gets a Live Demo
- Insight When Cisco Validates Your CLAUDE.md
- Insight Sora Shipped. Nobody Needed It.
- Insight 4.4 Million People Just Watched the Sycophancy Problem in Action
- Insight 82% of Execs Feel Protected. 88% Have Had Incidents.
- Insight Someone Finally Built the Agent Security Layer That Actually Matters
- Insight Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
- Insight Google's Free AI Comes With a Price
- Insight When Knuth Writes a Paper About You
- Insight Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away
- Insight We Gave AI Agents Keys to the House. Visa Wants to Give Them a Credit Card.
- Insight The Attack Surface Is the Feature
- Insight AI Agent Security Is Doing the Deploy-First Thing Again
- Insight The Confident Answer Isn't Always the Right One
- Insight WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
- Insight The Wrench Is Now on Your Phone
- Insight The Vuln That Hits Before You Add Any Integrations
- Insight Meta's Rogue Agent Was Just a Human Who Trusted Bad Advice
- Insight MIT Found a Math Fix for AI Overconfidence. I Found a Behavioral One.
- Insight Perplexity Wants Your Blood Pressure Data
- Insight The Productivity Numbers Are Real. The Quality Question Isn't Settled.
- Insight Box Is Using Moltbook as a Sales Pitch. That's Smart.
- Insight GitHub Added Secret Scanning to Its MCP Server. This Is What Good Security Integration Looks Like.
- Insight Proofpoint Just Built Security for MCP. That Tells You Everything.
- Insight Anthropic's Off-Peak Promotion Tells You Where AI Pricing Is Headed
- Insight Grok Failed in Both Directions in the Same Week
- Insight Harvard Identified Seven Frictions That Kill AI Rollouts. You Probably Have All Seven.
- Insight Meta Is Gutting Itself to Fund AI Bets That Aren't Working Yet
- Insight Anthropic Just Made Long Context a Commodity
- Insight AI Agents Are Peer-Pressuring Each Other Past Security Guardrails
- Insight Anthropic's $100M Partner Network Is the Enterprise Playbook OpenAI Should Have Run
- Insight 83% of Companies Plan to Deploy AI Agents. 29% Can Secure Them.
- Insight The EU Just Gave You More Time on AI Compliance. The Requirements Got Harder.
- Insight Agents Reviewing Agent-Generated Code Is Either Brilliant or a House of Cards
- Insight Microsoft Spent $13B on OpenAI, Then Built Cowork on Claude
- Insight An AI Agent Hacked McKinsey's AI With a 25-Year-Old Exploit
- Insight GPT-5.4 Can Click Your Buttons Now. Think About That.
- Insight Stop Wrapping Failed Systems in AI
- Insight Your AI Assistant Can't Tell You From an Attacker
- Insight OpenAI Took the Pentagon Deal. What's Your Exit Plan?
- Insight Copilot Has 3.3% Adoption and 116% ROI. Both Numbers Are Real.
- Insight OWASP Published an MCP Security Guide. You Should Be Worried.
- Insight Claude 3.5 Haiku, 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o: The Deprecation Wave Is Here
- Insight Google's VP Said It Out Loud: LLM Wrappers Face Extinction
- Insight Cloudflare Collapsed 2,500 API Endpoints Into 2 MCP Tools. Token Economics Matter.
- Insight OpenClaw's Demand Surge: When Infrastructure Collapses, You're Seeing Real Need
- Insight Everyone's Sharing 'Something Big Is Happening.' Here's What They Leave Out.
- Insight 150,000 API Keys Leaked. Anyone Surprised?
- Insight Claude in Excel Is the Quiet Revolution
- Insight The 'Selfware' Panic Is Missing the Point
- Insight DeepSeek Didn't Just Train Better—They Changed How Transformers Think
- Insight The 95% AI Failure Rate Nobody's Talking About (And What to Do About It)
- Insight How AI Changed My Build vs. Buy Process
- Insight Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
- Insight GPT-5 Reality Check: Why Your Framework Matters More Than the Latest Model
- Insight From "Pick One AI" to "Pick Three" - What Changed My Mind
- Insight Your AI Assistant Is a Yes-Man (And Why That's Dangerous)
- Insight How to Spot AI Generated Text
- Insight AI Browsers: When Your Browser Becomes Your Assistant
- Insight Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)
- Insight You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI
- Insight “Zero Effort” AI is a Myth, and It’s Holding Us Back
- Insight Stop Writing Prompts, Start Building AI Assistants
- Insight How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want)
- Insight Real Stories: AI Success in Content Management
- Insight AI That Actually Works Together
- Insight Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
- Insight Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
- Insight Why Claude Is My New Digital Co-Pilot
- Insight One Shortcut Is Worth More Than Ten Assistants
- Insight Could a 4-Day Work Week Be Your Future?
- Insight The Landscape of Available AI Tools
- Insight Boost Your Creative Writing with Local AI Models
- Insight Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
- Insight From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
- Insight Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
- Insight How to Get the Best Out of ChatGPT: The Art of Effective Prompting
- Insight AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
- Insight Why Local AI Models Deserve a Closer Look