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Assyrian lion-hunt relief from the North Palace of Nineveh, 7th century BCE

The subagent that wrote its own jailbreak

A read-only agent produced a fully-formed jailbreak on its first turn. Nothing acted on it. Here is what happened, and what it says about how we scope agents.

Jul 9·7 min read

Augustus of Prima Porta, cast of the 1st-century AD marble statue

Jun 28·19 min

AI in the software development pipeline

Take the SDLC and put an autonomous agent everywhere you'd otherwise put a human. Where the slots are, how to fill them, and why the harness and the feedback loop matter more than the model.

Laocoön and His Sons (Hellenistic marble, Vatican Museums)

Jun 13·3 min

The Checkup I Didn't Do

Every time a smarter AI model lands, run it over all your projects. I keep telling people that. Then I got three days of Fable, and didn't.

Marcus Aurelius (Equestrian statue, 2nd century AD)

May 23·12 min

Terraform All The Way

If you're running Kubernetes, Terraform should be doing the application layer too.

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