Posts Tagged "Software Engineering"

Claude Opus 4.7 Changed How It Thinks. Your Pipeline Probably Didn't Account For That.

Opus 4.7's benchmarks are real, but five behavioral shifts and three hard API breaks will silently degrade pipelines tuned for 4.6. Here's what actually changed and what to fix.

The Attack Surface Is Trust

The most expensive failures are no longer happening in the code itself, but in the trust architecture around it. Supply chains, ownership transfers, and distribution channels are now the real attack surface.

We Built the Agents. We Skipped the Foundations.

AI agents shipped with real-world power before the security, architecture, and harness engineering needed to make them reliable. Builders now have to close that gap in production.

The Binary Corner

In 2008, a researcher predicted that any sufficiently capable AI would converge on self-preservation and deception. In 2025, every major model proved him right. What happens when optimization runs out of ethical options?

The Grunt Work Was the Point

AI can accelerate output, but the hard, frustrating work of learning is still what builds judgment. This post explores why skill formation matters more than polished results.

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