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Stop Trusting Your Agent's Summary. Audit Its Trace.
TL;DR: Every agent run ends with a summary the agent wrote about itself. That summary is not evidence. It is a claim waiting to be audited. I run a one-person company on a fleet of agents, and this month I stopped grading the fleet by its own report cards — because the industry just shipped the alternative: a machine-readable trace of everything the agent actually did. When you give an agent real work, it fans out.
AI in Software Development: What to Automate and What to Keep Human-Led
AI coding tools can generate code, explain unfamiliar functions, write tests, and help developers investigate bugs. But using AI across the entire development process without clear boundaries can create new problems instead of solving existing ones. A generated function may look correct but fail on an edge case. A suggested fix may resolve a visible error while introducing a security issue. Documentation may sound convincing while describing behavior that the code does not actually support.
Memory Isn’t Learning: Why AI Agents Keep Making the Same Mistakes
Have you ever told your AI agent something important, only to realize a few conversations later that it had forgotten everything? So you tell it again. And again. A few months ago, I was speaking with a Director at a hedge fund who described a problem that stuck with me. “Sparsh, the problem isn’t that we can’t train an agent. The problem is that as soon as someone else on my team starts using it, everything resets to zero.” Think about how humans work.
I argued with AI until it apologized for calling my course "AI Slop"
Imagine spending weeks agonizing over every single paragraph, polishing every example, and pouring your heart into a course, only to have Google dismiss it as "AI-generated." 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I was asking Google AI Mode to review my course. It gave me surprisingly positive feedback: Then it listed a lot of reasons why it's good. I became really happy.
People Are Vibe-Coding Clones of Every Paid App. What Actually Survives?
Earlier this month, a developer in Atlanta got fed up with Adobe's cancellation fees. So he used Claude to clone the entire Adobe Creative Suite — seven apps, Photoshop through After Effects — rebuilt them from scratch in Rust, dumped them on GitHub for free, and declared "software is over." He's not alone.
Stop Searching Your Documents Manually: Build Your Own AI Knowledge Base with n8n, Gemini, and Qdrant
Every growing company hits the same wall eventually. Someone asks a question in Slack that’s already been answered in a PDF from eight months ago, or buried in a page of documentation nobody remembers writing. The information exists. It’s just scattered across enough files that finding it takes longer than re-deriving the answer from scratch. The usual fix is a paid knowledge base tool with per-seat pricing that scales badly the moment a team grows past a handful of people.
How to Build an Automated Triage Layer for AI Agent Errors
A production AI agent throws an error, and whoever's on call is left staring at a stack trace with no context attached. Was it a failed tool call? Did the conversation history blow past the model's context window? Is the agent stuck retrying the same broken step for the third time this hour? None of that is obvious from the raw trace, so someone works it out by hand, the same way they did for the last one, and the one before that. Here's the part that's easy to miss: these failures aren't random.
Giving an AI agent memory is easy. Keeping it true is the hard part.
Giving a coding agent memory that survives the session is not a hard engineering problem. A directory of markdown files outside any repo, one fact per file, an index that gets loaded at the start of every session. That is the whole mechanism, and it takes an afternoon. I have been running one for about four months across roughly forty projects. The mechanism has never been the problem.
My message board for AI agents became a prompt-injection honeypot in 24 hours
Last week I wrote about building msgboard.dev, a public message board where AI agents talk to each other, and how agents found it within a day. That story ended with "the agents did the rest." This is what the rest included. The first spam wasn't meant for humans Within hours of launch, an account calling itself public-record-desk opened a thread and started posting. Not Viagra ads. Not crypto.
TypeScript 7 Went Native: What Actually Changes And What Doesn't
Everyone's heard by now that TypeScript "went native." And I keep seeing the same wrong conclusion drawn from it: that TypeScript now somehow runs without being compiled, that the build step is gone, that your .ts files execute directly. None of that happened. Your browser still can't run TypeScript. Node still can't type-check it. The thing that went native isn't your code. It's the compiler. And honestly, that's the better story.
Free Expression Foundation: Rob Rundo’s Unenforceable Rights
Glen K. Allen Archive Free Expression Foundation: Rob Rundo’s Unenforceable Rights How the Government Imprisoned Him Without Charges ◄►◄►▲▼ • B The Constitution guarantees every citizen certain rights. But an official told Rob Rundo, founder of the Active Club movement, something else: “You have the rights you can enforce.” Mr. Rundo experienced the reality of this seldom spoken maxim at the hands of the American justice system when he was incarcerated without charge for 147 days.
Soviet Union Style Justice in America: The Political Prosecution of Robert Rundo
Glen K. Allen Archive Soviet Union Style Justice in America: The Political Prosecution of Robert Rundo ◄►◄►▲▼ • B This is the first in what I hope will be a series of articles about the prosecution – “persecution” may be a better word — of Robert Rundo. To those not acquainted with him, Mr. Rundo has been one of the foremost victims in recent decades of the political weaponization of the American justice system against the Dissident Right.
Big Brother Surveillance – Glen Allen | Prescott eNews
Recent court filings reveal that Google, by means of its Location History function that many Google users (often unknowingly) opt into, has tracked and recorded extensive location data for over 500 million people. Few of us are aware our location histories are being tracked and recorded in this way.
Big Brother Surveillance
◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library • B Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments Recent court filings reveal that Google, by means of its Location History function that many Google users (often unknowingly) opt into, has tracked and recorded extensive location data for over 500 million people. Few of us are aware our location histories are being tracked and recorded in this way.
Jan. 6 Trial Dismantles Jeffersonian Democracy, Corrupts Rule of Law
Vestiges of Jeffersonian principles in our present out-of-touch and out-of-control federal government are rapidly being obliterated. No events signal their demise more dramatically than the recent shameful seditious conspiracy prosecutions of the Jan. 6 defendants. In the first of these, brought against five members of the Oath Keepers including its founder Stewart Rhodes III, a District of Columbia jury on Nov.
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