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.
A summary of how AI has progressed in the last 5 years and current challenges (by ChatGPT)
Hey there, fellow data strugglers! It’s no secret that the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been making massive strides over the last few years. Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and see how things have progressed since 2017. First up, we’ve seen...
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