A few weeks ago I wrote that I don’t have much of a problem with saying an AI decided, chose or approved something. If an agent made the intermediate decision, that is often the clearest description of what happened. What bothers me more is designing AI to make it seem as though there is someoneContinue reading “Anthropic Can Keep Claude’s Self-Model. It Should Be Careful What Claude Says About It.”
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When Agents Become Abundant, Boundaries Become Scarce
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”
Pencils Down. Now What?
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?”
