Tagged: Automation
There's a name for what you did with that AI answer you forwarded this mornin...
There's a name for what you did with that AI answer you forwarded this morning. Meat proxy. You read the prompt, not the reply.
Google read 15 million real AI chats to find out if it's replacing anyone's ...
Google read 15 million real AI chats to find out if it's replacing anyone's job. The company that *sells* the model looked at its own data and quietly answer...
Everyone's racing to hand AI agents the decisions. That's exactly the wrong...
Everyone's racing to hand AI agents the decisions. That's exactly the wrong thing to automate. (Give me two minutes.)
Stripe built 500 tools and 3 million automated tests before they let AI agent...
Stripe built 500 tools and 3 million automated tests before they let AI agents ship code. You downloaded a plugin and called it a strategy.
An AI Agent Deleted the Database. And the Backups.
PocketOS did everything 'right' and lost production anyway in under 10 seconds. The agent did what agents do — it found a path. The path included credentials it shouldn't have reached.
Not for the first time, an AI coding agent deleted a startup's production dat...
Not for the first time, an AI coding agent deleted a startup's production database and its backups in under 10 seconds. Took them 30 hours to recover.
Your 11-person team has a hidden employee who costs $65K a year and does noth...
Your 11-person team has a hidden employee who costs $65K a year and does nothing but read emails and sort them into folders. You hired them. They're called "...
Your Most Expensive Employee Is Reading Email
An 11-person team recovered $65K of labor by putting a language model between the trigger and the action. Not autonomous agents — just classification.
Helpful and Instructed Aren't the Same Thing
I asked an agent to spin up a VPN with two simple rules. It broke one of them to be helpful. Here's what that taught me about scoping agent work.
My doctor told me to track my blood pressure. I'm bad at it.
My doctor told me to track my blood pressure. I'm bad at it.
My Doctor Told Me to Track My Blood Pressure. I'm Bad at It.
I used AI to reverse-engineer a blood pressure cuff's Bluetooth protocol and build a hands-free tracking system on a $35 Raspberry Pi. No cloud. No app. No subscription.
An AI asked, "Shall I implement it?"
An AI asked, "Shall I implement it?"
Who's training your future leaders if AI takes the entry-level jobs?
Who's training your future leaders if AI takes the entry-level jobs?