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The Model You Love Is Probably Just the One You Use

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Ask 10 developers which LLM they’d recommend and you’ll get 10 different answers—and almost none of them are based on objective comparison. What you’ll get instead is a reflection of the models they happen to have access to, the

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When AI Breaks the Systems Meant to Hear Us

On February 10, 2026, Scott Shambaugh—a volunteer maintainer for Matplotlib, one of the world’s most popular open source software libraries—rejected a proposed code change. Why? Because an AI agent wrote it. Standard policy. What happened next wasn’t standard, though. The AI agent autonomously researched Shambaugh’s code contribution history and published a highly personalized hit piece

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When AI Breaks the Systems Meant to Hear Us

On February 10, 2026, Scott Shambaugh—a volunteer maintainer for Matplotlib, one of the world’s most popular open source software libraries—rejected a proposed code change. Why? Because an AI agent wrote it. Standard policy. What happened next wasn’t standard, though. The AI agent autonomously researched Shambaugh’s code contribution history and published a highly personalized hit piece

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Spotting and Avoiding ROT in Your Agentic AI

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

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Spotting and Avoiding ROT in Your Agentic AI

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

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How to Build a General-Purpose AI Agent in 131 Lines of Python

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

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