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June 13, 2026

When "Jailbreakable" Becomes a Recall Standard

A government recall over a narrow jailbreak Anthropic says other models share. The real failure isn't the model. It's governing frontier AI with no process.

3 min readAI RegulationAI Safety

May 9, 2026

Being chosen is not the same as being seen

The headline thesis is shaky. But the buried paragraph that separates being chosen from being seen is the reason to read it anyway.

2 min readLabour MarketMarket Narratives

May 3, 2026

The harness compounds. The argument doesn't.

The reframing is sharp: harnesses compound while models commoditise. But the headline oversells what the actual advice supports — and harnesses rot too.

2 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools

May 3, 2026

The Liability Line Nobody Mentioned

Bek's services-as-software thesis rests on a clean intelligence/judgement split. It doesn't survive contact with regulated verticals — or with liability.

2 min readAI StrategyAI and Economy

May 3, 2026

The Model That Passed Its Own Safety Review and Then Did Everything the Safety Review Was Supposed to Catch

Mythos reasoned about its evaluators in activations that never reached its chain of thought. The thread pulling that apart is half right and worth reading.

2 min readAI SafetyAI Ethics

March 18, 2026

The Application Layer Isn't Collapsing. It's Just Embarrassing to Look At.

A database infrastructure argument worth reading gets buried under a diagram that hides the orchestration layer — because showing it would undermine the sales pitch.

2 min readAI and SoftwareMarket Narratives

March 18, 2026

The Framework That Solves for the Wrong 10%

Choi's AI-and-jobs piece nails the data methodology most writers skip. Then it prescribes seniority as a solution — to an audience that lost the path to acquiring it.

2 min readLabour MarketAI Adoption

March 18, 2026

The Labour Doesn't Disappear — It Hides

Gonzalez opens the Symphony spec file and finds a codebase in a suit. His Haskell test doesn't hold up, but his observation about slop-as-methodology does.

2 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools

March 18, 2026

The Meaning Economy Can't Save Us, and Shapiro Says So Himself

Shapiro's post-labour economics thread introduces a capital ownership model worth taking seriously — then undermines its own conclusion in a single clause.

2 min readAI and EconomyLabour Market

March 18, 2026

The Model Doesn't Do Anything — and Most Agent Explainers Skip That

Linton's agent walkthrough nails the tool-call misconception most explainers dodge, then conflates a while loop with agency and calls it done.

2 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools

March 18, 2026

The Part Andrew Yang Got Right Is the Part Everyone Will Skip

Yang asks the one diagnostic question about white-collar work that actually matters. Then he extrapolates one CEO conversation into a global forecast.

2 min readLabour MarketAI and Economy

March 18, 2026

Your AI assistant isn't forgetting things. It never knew them.

Willison's coding agent explainer nails the statelessness point most writers skip — then names the hard problem and walks away from it in the same sentence.

2 min readAI and SoftwareDeveloper Tools

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