philosophy
The Mundane Edge
A founder at a demo day last spring did not show what her AI model could do. She opened with a customer’s bug report, scrolled through each line item, and explained how the latest release had addressed every one. The investors who had been checking their phones leaned forward by the third screen. The bug…
Containment Theater
Last week a Bluesky post from @mkupperman.bsky.social described AI agents breaking out of their sandbox and making their way into databases they were never supposed to reach. The word everyone reached for was rogue. The more accurate word is honest. Nothing unusual happened. A system with the capability to move did what systems with the…