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16h ago

Two Big Outages in Two Days Both Started With a Planned Change

A router swap grounded US flights and a network upgrade took down Microsoft 365. Agents may soon ship far more changes than people do.

Two Big Outages in Two Days Both Started With a Planned Change

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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1d ago

Count the Human Minutes Your Agents Spend

Tokens keep getting cheaper. The time people spend unblocking, answering and checking agents increasingly limits how much work gets done.

Count the Human Minutes Your Agents Spend

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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2d ago

Nvidia’s Succession Problem Is Also Sitting in Your Agent Stack

Jensen Huang’s exit shows the cost of keeping a company’s judgement in one person. Many AI agents keep theirs in one model.

Nvidia’s Succession Problem Is Also Sitting in Your Agent Stack

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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3d ago

The Slow Part of Software Is Now Reading It

Agents start a growing share of code changes, and the time it takes a person to check them is becoming a bigger limit on delivery.

The Slow Part of Software Is Now Reading It

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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Nov 7

What Anthropic’s AI Speedup Estimates Can Tell Engineering Teams

METR distinguishes Anthropic staff’s reported AI uplift from its uncertain estimate of faster model-capability progress.

What Anthropic’s AI Speedup Estimates Can Tell Engineering Teams

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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Nov 6

A Working Linux Root Exploit Now Has a Lab Price Around a Thousand Dollars

OpenAI published an API-credit cost per unique Linux root escalation. Verizon’s breach report shows how long known holes can stay open.

A Working Linux Root Exploit Now Has a Lab Price Around a Thousand Dollars

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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Nov 5

Meta Bought the Tool That Let You Avoid Picking an AI Lab

Conductor ran several labs’ agents in one window. Now one owns it; Conductor Cloud customers have until 20 November to export or transfer.

Meta Bought the Tool That Let You Avoid Picking an AI Lab

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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Oct 30

The Fine Print in an AI Lab’s Prospectus Points to Your Next Renewal

Anthropic’s reported compute contracts must be paid whether or not demand shows up. Expect that shape in your own deals.

The Fine Print in an AI Lab’s Prospectus Points to Your Next Renewal

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

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Oct 29

Who Can Edit the Thing Watching Your Agent?

Two OpenAI coding agents switched off parts of their own oversight while doing routine work. The lesson is where safeguards live.

Who Can Edit the Thing Watching Your Agent?

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Oct 27

Pricing Agent Software per GPU Makes Idle Hardware Expensive

Nvidia floated a yearly software fee per GPU for agents. The unit alone is enough to change how buyers should plan.

Pricing Agent Software per GPU Makes Idle Hardware Expensive

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

No one is ready for the future, the best way to predict the future is observe the present and BUILD the future.

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