AI safety shifts from the model to the system level. As AI becomes agentic and tool-driven, risk emerges from complex interactions, widening the gap between evaluation and real-world behavior.
The following article was originally published on Tim O’Brien’s Medium page and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. If you’ve spent any time around AI-assisted software work, you already know the moment when the Scope Creep Kraken first puts a tentacle on the boat. The project begin...
AI is splitting in two directions. One path is controlled, restricted, and security-first. The other is open, autonomous, and scaling fast. The real question isn’t which is better, it’s what this means for trust.
We call it machine learning. But do machines actually learn?
Today's AI systems train, optimize, and scale, but real learning is something else entirely. The distinction matters more than the industry wants to admit.
I sat down with Aaron Levie at the O’Reilly AI Codecon two weeks ago. Aaron cofounded Box in 2005, and 20 years later, his company manages content for about two-thirds of the Fortune 500. Aaron is one of the few CEOs of an incumbent enterprise software company thinking deeply in public about what AI...
AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy
AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could slash AI energy use by up to 100× while actually improving accuracy. By combining neural networks with ...
After ChatGPT’s breakthrough, the race to define the next frontier of generative AI accelerated. One of the most talked-about innovations was OpenAI’s Sora, a text-to-video AI model that promised to transform digital content creation.
“Conviction Collapse” and the End of Software as We Know It
In “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” the poet Wallace Stevens wrote, “It is not in the premise that reality is a solid.” That line came to mind during a fascinating conversation with Harper Reed, which amounted to something like “It is no longer in the premise that software is a product.” Harper i...
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being reproduced here with the author’s permission. This 2,800-word essay (a 12-minute read) is about how to survive inside the AI revolution in software development, without succumbing to the fear that swirls around all of us. It explains s...
If the last wave of AI felt like hiring a very smart intern, this one feels more like managing an entire organization that never sleeps (and occasionally argues with itself).
How to Build a General-Purpose AI Agent in 131 Lines of Python
The following article originally appeared on Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s newsletter, Vanishing Gradients, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In this post, we’ll build two AI agents from scratch in Python. One will be a coding agent, the other a search agent. Why have I called this...
Not that long ago, we were resigned to the idea that humans would need to inspect every line of AI-generated code. We’d do it personally, code reviews would always be part of a serious software practice, and the ability to read and review code would become an even more important part of a developer’...
AI-powered robot learns how to harvest tomatoes more efficiently
A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This smarter strategy boosted success rates to 81%, with the robot even switching angles when needed. Th...
Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code
My “Live with Tim” conversation with Steve Yegge this week was one of those sessions where you could imagine the audience leaning forward in their chairs. And on more than one occasion, when Steve got particularly colorful, I imagined them recoiling. Steve has always been one of the most provocative...
Autonomous AI systems force architects into an uncomfortable question that cannot be avoided much longer: Does every decision need to be governed synchronously to be safe? At first glance, the answer appears obvious. If AI systems reason, retrieve information, and act autonomously, then surely every...
I’ve said in the past that AI will enable new kinds of applications—but I’ve never had the imagination to guess what those new applications would be. I don’t want a smart refrigerator, especially if it’s going to inflict ads on me. Or a smart TV. Or a smart doorbell. Most of these applications are s...
The emergence of the AI Architect: Engineering the future of tech
According to Gartner, over 80% of enterprise AI projects fail to move beyond the prototype stage, highlighting the need for professionals who can design systems that work in the real world. Enter the AI Architect...
Enterprise adoption is shifting from “capability” to “credibility.” Organizations without strong oversight, documentation, and risk management risk losing trust and market momentum. Are you ready?