AI & ML

The following article originally appeared on Q McCallum’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Generative AI agents and rogue traders pose similar insider threats to their employers. Specifically, we can expect companies to deploy agentic AI with broad reach and insufficient oversight. That creates the conditions for a particular flavor of […]

The following article originally appeared on Q McCallum’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Generative AI agents and rogue traders pose similar insider threats to their employers. Specifically, we can expect companies to deploy agentic AI with broad reach and insufficient oversight. That creates the conditions for a particular flavor of

The following article originally appeared on Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s newsletter, Vanishing Gradients, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In this post, we’ll build two AI agents from scratch in Python. One will be a coding agent, the other a search agent. Why have I called this post “How to Build a General-Purpose AI

The following article originally appeared on Wes McKinney’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Like a lot of people, I’ve found that AI is terrible for my sleep schedule. In the past I’d wake up briefly at 4:00 or 4:30 in the morning to have a sip of water or use

For the past two years, I’ve been working with economist Ilan Strauss at the AI Disclosures Project. We started out by asking what regulators would need to know to ensure the safety of AI products that touch hundreds of millions of people. We are now exploring the missing mechanisms that are needed to enable the

Not that long ago, we were resigned to the idea that humans would need to inspect every line of AI-generated code. We’d do it personally, code reviews would always be part of a serious software practice, and the ability to read and review code would become an even more important part of a developer’s skillset.

This is the second article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, and look for the next article on April 2 on O’Reilly Radar. The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts

The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’ve been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI generated pull requests. Going so far as to stop accepting PRs from external contributors. This week we’re going to begin automatically closing

The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’ve been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI generated pull requests. Going so far as to stop accepting PRs from external contributors. This week we’re going to begin automatically closing