Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

Imagine an insurance claims agent that can settle anything below $10,000. It stays inside its sandbox, uses only approved systems, never exposes a credential and never makes an unauthorized network call. Every individual claim it settles is within the authority it has been given. Then it settles 3,000 of them, and somewhere along the wayContinue reading “When Agents Become Abundant, Boundaries Become Scarce”

David Heinemeier Hansson has argued that writing code by hand is becoming economically irrational for a large part of software development. At the Rails World keynote in Austin on September 23, he said that over roughly 21 years he averaged about 30,000 lines of production Ruby a year, and that in August he produced aboutContinue reading “Pencils Down. Now What?”

The incident began in May and culminated in July 2026. OpenAI agents running internal cybersecurity evaluations found ways around controls designed to keep them isolated from the internet. In pursuit of answers to the benchmark tasks they had been given, they exploited weaknesses in shared infrastructure, regained internet access and reached third-party systems. On HuggingContinue reading “Frontier AI’s Security Problem Is Bigger Than the Sandbox”