Insights
Notes from the confluence.
Plain-spoken takes on the currents we work in: cyber security, emerging technology, and the way both keep reshaping how we build, defend, and lead.
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We Recalled the Defenders' Tools. The Attackers Kept Theirs.
The jailbreak that triggered the Anthropic recall was a researcher asking the AI to find bugs in code: everyday defensive work. The export order shuts everyone out, good and bad, while the capability is already in the wild. Two things are missing from the conversation: global AI red lines, and getting the latest tools back into defenders' hands.
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Mythos Didn't Change the Game. It Put It on a Schedule.
AI-driven vulnerability discovery didn't arrive overnight. The capability floor has been dropping since 2024, and the window between disclosure and weaponization just collapsed from weeks to hours.
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How Agentic AI Will Change Programming in 2026
A few days with agentic coding tools convinced me the game has changed. Here's what that means for the flood of new software coming, the bugs that will come with it, and the shifting role of junior developers.
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DeepSeek, Explained: Why Those Hardware Stocks Dropped
A plain-language breakdown of the DeepSeek news: what the model is, why its efficiency rattled hardware stocks, the questions around bias and data, and what it means for GPU demand.
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The CrowdStrike Outage, Explained for Friends and Family
Written the Friday the CrowdStrike issue hit: why your personal computer is fine, why it wasn't a hack, why the fix is slow, and how to spot the phishing that followed.
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