Nothing Broke
Nothing at the hotel was broken - the world had moved. What key cards, SMS passcodes and AI-generated code teach you about the expired assumptions in the systems you still run.
Tagged: Opinion
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Parent Your Agents
We teach children everything they know, and we teach our AI agents everything too, every time we send them off on a task. There is no neutral input, only the standard you accept.
The Question You Didn't Ask
Two tribes are at war over AI-generated code. One dismisses it on sight, the other ships it without looking. They think they are opposites, and they are making the same mistake.
The approval box that lied
Six popular AI coding tools can be tricked into writing an attacker's key onto a developer's machine, with their own approval. The box said one thing, the machine did another.
AI cognitive bias is real
Cognitive biases are baked into the LLMs we code with, and into the review loops meant to catch their mistakes. Here is one I caught in the act, and why it matters to your code.
Coder was always the wrong job title
Software engineering was never the typing - that was only ever the friction. AI has taken the typing. The thinking, which was always the real job, is what's left.