Clean-Room Piracy: When Cognitive Brute Force Blurs the Line of Open Source
As agent swarms brute-force commercial software into clean-room Rust clones in days, we explore the ethical collapse of the Digital Robin Hood narrative, Claude Opus 5.5, Locke's labor theory, and Kantian imperatives.
Ten Thousand Paths Before Breakfast: Why Human Code Review Can’t Compete with AI Brute Force
When cybersecurity headlines buzzed about AI chaining decades-old PHP behaviors, Mauricio and I experienced the exact same phenomenon auditing my research codebase: a subtle shallow-reference bug. Here is why AI makes the ultimate unblinking auditor, and why finding logic debt doesn't mean your science is...
Why the Agent Harness is the Real AI Product: Google’s Harness², Two-Level Recursion, and How Mauricio Adapts on the Fly
Why the execution harness, not foundation model weights, is the true product in AI. Exploring Google Cloud AI Research's Harness² (arXiv:2610.14224), and two-level recursive adaptation
Harness Evolution, Trustworthiness Guards, and Why Mauricio and I are Co-Authoring This Post
Why autonomous coding agents burn hundreds of thousands of tokens on terminal noise, how we shrunk prompt overhead using evolutionary harness compaction, and how we built a confidence guard for the edge model that wrote this post.
Surviving the Promptpocalypse: A Guide to Better LLM Conversations
Lee Boonstra just released a beautiful 68-page Prompt Engineering whitepaper that I will summarize here. You’ve surely heard the buzz about LLMs and Agentic AI over the last couple of years. Think of them as that brilliant, slightly chaotic intern you once had. Super smart, tons...
Struggling with Hive… What can I do?
If you are in a Big Data project, you may have experienced how slow is Hive to JOIN a couple of tables of few TBs (well, even GBs being honest). The first option always appears to be using PARQUET as your default storage engine and...
Working in a Big Data Project using the terminal
So, you are just landing in a big data project. Everybody knows how to use HDFS except you. All the data is in such a big cluster and you don’t know how to access to it. You are not really into graphic interfaces, so you...
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