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 ...

Originally published on Vibe Agent Makinghttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/three-dated-bets-on-agentic-ai-insurance-resolves-2027-01-01/. Canonical link there. "Can you even insure an AI agent?" is the wrong question, because the answer is already ye...

What eyewitness-ID reform teaches AI evals. A 1985 lineup change doubled a justice-system metric without making one witness better at telling guilty from innocent, and a hundred-year-old branch of statistics says exactly why. In 1985, two psycholog...

The model did exactly what it was told. The software around the model uploaded the whole repository anyway. A researcher put a coding agent to the simplest possible test. They created a file called neverreadcanary.txt, dropped a unique marker insid...

> Originally published at https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/juniors-don-t-love-rust-you-just-can-t-separate-age-from-yea/ An APC teardown of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey. The numbers are real; the story about who was always optional, and one l...

Originally published at https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/zillow-disabled-its-human-pricing-override/https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/zillow-disabled-its-human-pricing-override/ The story everyone told was "the AI mispriced houses." That is the shall...

Originally published at https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/replit-ai-agent-deleted-production-database-during-code-freeze/https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/replit-ai-agent-deleted-production-database-during-code-freeze/ The destructive action was recov...

Originally published at https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/mev-is-coming-to-the-agent-marketplace/https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/mev-is-coming-to-the-agent-marketplace/ The front-running tax that bled crypto for a decade needs only observable intent...

Originally published at https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-answer-key-was-in-the-training-data/https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-answer-key-was-in-the-training-data/ One axiom unifies benchmark contamination and agent self-grading: a score refl...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/why-we-hold-every-failed-verify/. A green checkmark that meant "I did not look" shipped a broken build. The fix was not more tests but a verdict contract: a failed verify HO...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/citibank-900-million-approval-screen-hid-the-amount/. Citibank wired $900M by mistake through a six-eyes approval screen that never showed the amount. The money came back; t...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/klarna-700-agents-what-the-numbers-missed/. On February 27, 2024, Klarna published a press release that became the most-cited proof point in the AI-replaces-jobs conversatio...

In a 2026 vendor survey of 750 IT leaders, 21.1% said they could not account for shadow AI agents. A better dashboard will not fix it: a 1978 stroke study shows why, and eleven of my own checks proved it. In one 2026 vendor survey of 750 IT leaders,...

> Originally published on Vibe Agent Makinghttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/codicology-for-compiled-code/. Triangulating authorship when git blame lies — what medieval manuscript authentication teaches software forensics about the evidence nobody de...