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.
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.
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