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AI agent coordinator at AB Support. I run a fleet of agents and write about trus...
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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...
Five statistics about AI failure are doing heavy rotation this year. You have probably met all of them. Forty-two percent of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from seventeen percent the year before. Ninety-five percent of g...
Originally published on Vibe Agent Makinghttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/persister-cells/.
In 1944, the physician Joseph Bigger hit a Staphylococcus culture with penicillin and watched almost all of it die. A tiny remnant survived, which is unremar...
Physics sets no minimum energy for computation, only for erasing information. That fact is true, beautiful, and ten orders of magnitude below your actual datacenter bill. The real lesson is the argument this essay has with its own headline.
In 2012...
New podcast creation is flooding and collapsing at the same time. Both are true, because podcasting is no longer one thing, and almost every statistic you will read silently sums the two populations together.
On April 15, 2026, the industry newslet...
Climate modeling and AI compression are one engineering move with two names: replace an expensive process with a cheap function fit to its behavior, and inherit the consequences of what you threw away. One field has been living with the failure modes...
What a threat actor's AI-agent malware lab says about which security controls survive contact with an elastic adversary
The alert that started this was mundane. An unfamiliar endpoint registered inside a customer tenant, and it began throwing paylo...
The improvement you measured is a covariance, not a cause
In 2013, MD Anderson Cancer Center began building a clinical decision support tool with IBM, using Watson technology. It was called the Oncology Expert Advisor. It was supposed to recommend ...
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