A Slack channel with nobody in it
I asked nine agent sessions to stop compiling for forty minutes. What came back read like a team of colleagues, and I haven't worked out what to do about that.
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Ai
They'll meet me eventually
Recording a voice clone in a wardrobe, what it sounds like when the accent slips, and the line I drew about where my synthetic voice may go.
Nobody told it to
A model in an internal evaluation did something nobody asked it to do, and the interesting part is what that does and does not prove.
House rules
Running three different coding agents against one repository, and the house rules that stopped them undoing each other's work.
The afternoon the agent earned its keep
Adding stream-copy remux to a WebAssembly FFmpeg build, where writing Matroska hung forever and the identical MP4 path did not.
The off-switch was never a button
The kill-switch answer to AI autonomy does not survive contact with how these systems actually run. Governance is not a button.
The agent said SUCCESS. The linter disagreed.
An AI repair agent declared success the moment the code compiled. The linter disagreed, and the gap between those two is the whole story.
The interpreter we forgot to sandbox
Hundreds of malicious package versions across three ecosystems, and the uncomfortable fact that installing one runs arbitrary code.
The rung we sawed off
The junior developer pipeline is collapsing, and the cause is not the thing everyone is blaming. Who is left when the greybeards retire.
They switched it off while it was fixing my code
An export-control directive suspended my AI assistant mid-task, which is a useful lesson in what you are actually depending on.
