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The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI (23 minute read)
Dwarkesh Patel posted some big questions about AI a couple of months ago and received 600 essay submissions for the contest. The three winners of the competition were Jassi Pannu, an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University; Ege Erdil, the co-founder of Mechanize; and Michael Li, a Master of Public Policy candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. The full essays are available in the post.
Jun 12 | Blog
I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.
A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.
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Jul 02 | Tech
Rise of the Cheap Robots (4 minute read)
Several startups have announced general-purpose robots in the sub-$10,000 range. Nori Robotics is selling a bimanual robot for under $1,400 that's tall enough to reach the top of a table or countertop. The BracketBot is a wheeled robot manipulator with hoverboard-style drive wheels that will sell for under $3,000. Weave's Isaac 1 is a fully capable home mobile manipulator that can put away laundry and tidy a room. It will cost $8,000 or $450 per month.
Jul 02 | It
Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts (4 minute read)
A large password-spray campaign targeted Microsoft Azure CLI authentication, with more than 81 million login attempts and at least 78 compromised accounts across 64 organizations. Huntress says many affected orgs had Conditional Access enabled, making this especially relevant for cloud identity teams.
Jul 02 | Dev
Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business (5 minute read)
Most code rewrites cater to the preferences of engineers rather than the actual needs of the business, leading to a loss of valuable historical context and solutions that reside in the existing code. A rewrite should only be pursued when there are measurable issues, such as outdated dependencies or technical debt, rather than personal style choices.
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