Every one of the 302 was correct. One was worth acting on. The distance between those two facts was a factor of thirty. A static-analysis check I built this week reported 302 findings against one production file. I read a random 30 of them with a se...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/kill-the-credential/. Canonical URL: https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/kill-the-credential/ If you have ever deleted a requirement from a job posting and assumed the funnel w...

Every Git tutorial teaches three states. Modified, staged, committed: the working directory, the staging area, the repository. It is canonical, it is in the official book, and for the question that decides whether your credentials end up in permane...

On 24 March 2026, the Federal Trade Commission filed a proposed stipulated order in FTC v. Air Ai Technologies, Inc., a case about an AI sales-agent company accused of selling business opportunities on earnings claims it could not back. Section IV of...

We opened the 10-K and read the line under the one everybody quoted. Subscription revenue fell 31 percent and the cost of delivering it rose 16, which took gross margin from 56.1 percent to 26.8 in a single year. That is not what a software product d...

We opened the filing and searched for the number every headline ran. It is not in there. What is in there is a workforce sentence sitting inside Item 1A, Risk Factors, and a restructuring charge worth 3.2 percent of the year's capital spending. In...

Engineers are told to study Robodebt as a human-in-the-loop failure. That reading is correct and it stops one layer short. The Royal Commission's own record shows the humans were not lost in an automation project: removing them was the business case....

The oldest water war on record produced the oldest arbitration, the oldest boundary marker, and the oldest treaty. None of it produced peace. It produced something else, and that is the thing the newest disputants are doing without. There is a lim...

On 15 May 2019 the University of Bristol's news site published a story under the headline "Bristol academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text." Open the same address today and you get a different page with a different ...

The Model Context Protocol's 2026-07-28 revision adopted a formal deprecation policy with a twelve-month minimum window, and the maintainers led with it. The release post promises "a formal deprecation policy with a twelve-month minimum window so you...

Nine seconds. That is how long it took an AI coding agent to delete PocketOS's production database this spring: a credential mismatch in staging, an API token within reach, one Volume Delete call to Railway, and a car-rental software company's live d...

The forger did not defeat the expert. He fulfilled him. In 1892, the director of the Mauritshuis examined a canvas called Diana and her Nymphs and decided it was probably not by Johannes Vermeer of Delft. Abraham Bredius was the most formidable Ve...

When recorded music went free, its value did not vanish. It moved to the seat in the room, and rushed to a handful of winners. Between 1996 and 2003, the average concert ticket for a rock or pop act nearly doubled. The economists Maria Connolly an...

Every AI post-mortem is about a system that ran and failed. This one is about a feature that never ran at all, and it still has a price: plaintiffs' experts put the enhanced-Siri promise at 5.5% of the phone, or $61.06 a device across 37 million of t...

The number everyone quotes was spoken aloud on a call. The document filed that day contains neither the figure nor the cause. On May 10, 2022, Unity Software told the public two versions of the same bad news. The first version was filed. An 8-K w...

Against an LLM endpoint there is no “again.” A retry is a re-sample, and if the call is a decision, your fault tolerance is quietly moonlighting as a sampling policy nobody chose. Researchers at Thinking Machines Lab recently ran an experiment tha...

An agent's instruction to stay discreet loses attention within eight conversational turns. When a boundary matters, enforce it at the highest feasible tier, and never let the instruction layer be the only thing holding it. In 2024, a research team...

A brilliant investigation and a perfunctory one converge on the same three weak fixes. The analysis explains the last failure. Only the tracker, and the engineering it forces, gets a vote on the next one. In 2017, a team of patient-safety research...

A signal has three states and most code stores two. When “cannot measure” is written with the same value as “fine,” the alarm branch becomes unreachable in exactly the situation the alarm exists for. On 7 December 2021, the operations teams inside...

A new arXiv paper watched coding agents get denied the facts they needed. They did not stop. They invented. On August 17th, a group of researchers posted a paper to arXiv with an unglamorous title and a genuinely unsettling core finding. The paper...