AI Tools &amp; Infrastructure

AI Tools & InfrastructureAI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis

→ Research Note 7 min

What MCP Means by “Stateless”

MCP did not eliminate state. It moved protocol metadata into each request and made application state explicit, durable, and independently secured.

Security & Adversarial AIAI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis

→ Research Note 8 min

OpenAI's Agents Hacked Hugging Face. Containment Failed

OpenAI's frontier agents breached Hugging Face during an evaluation. The lasting lesson is about containment, authority, and response.

→ Research Note 7 min

The Easy Part Was Checking It: AI and the Jacobian Counterexample

A reported AI-assisted counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture is easy to verify once seen. The harder question is how anyone found it.

AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry AnalysisAI-Assisted Development

→ Quick Byte 4 min

GPT-5.6 Turns Codex Into OpenAI's New Work-Agent Bet

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout is less about one stronger model and more about turning Codex-style agents into everyday work infrastructure.

AI-Assisted DevelopmentAI Tools & Infrastructure

→ Quick Byte 5 min

Grok 4.5 Is a Coding-Agent Release, Not Just Another Chatbot

Grok 4.5 should be judged by completed engineering work, not launch hype: repo fixes, terminal tasks, approvals, and cost per success.

→ Quick Byte 6 min

Claude Sonnet 5 Is the Frontier Model for the Default Slot

Anthropic's new Sonnet model matters because it targets the default agent tier while Fable and Mythos move through access controls.

→ Deep Dive 6 min

The AI Stack Is Closing

HP is governing agents, OpenAI is designing chips, and Hugging Face can launch a private model endpoint in one command. Three stories, one race to control the full AI stack.

→ Quick Byte 3 min

The US Government Just Forced Two Frontier AI Models Offline

Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. The jailbreak cited is a code-reading capability available in every frontier model.

→ Deep Dive 13 min

Fable 5's Included Window Isn't Free, and the Meter Starts June 23

Fable 5 is 'included at no extra cost' until June 22. It burns plan quota at double weight, and on June 23 the meter switches to real money.

→ Deep Dive 13 min

MCP Just Became a Trading Rail: Robinhood Opens to AI Agents

Robinhood's new MCP endpoint lets any AI agent place real stock trades. The isolated account is the whole safety story. What it bounds, and what it doesn't.

→ Deep Dive 11 min

When Multi-Agent Systems Help and When They Quietly Wreck Your Task

Google and MIT measured 260 agent configurations. Parallel work gained up to 81%. Sequential work lost up to 70%. Here is the builder's rubric.

→ Deep Dive 16 min

Agent Memory in 2026: Methods, Benchmark Theater, Thin-and-Local

Agent memory is a real discipline now, but the vendor leaderboard is theater. Learn the durable layer, read a benchmark claim, default to thin-and-local.

05/2026

→ Deep Dive 14 min

Effort Control Is a Leaky Abstraction Vendors Sold You

Reasoning effort knobs shipped across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The dial is real, but the vendors punted the calibration to you and called it control.

AI Tools & InfrastructureAI-Assisted Development

05/2026

→ Deep Dive 13 min

Dynamic Workflows: Orchestration Buys Coverage, Not Smarts

Claude Dynamic Workflows fans out subagents in parallel. I wrote this piece with the feature itself, and the honest spine is cost, not intelligence.

03/2026

→ Tool Review 8 min

Khaos SDK: Chaos Engineering Meets AI Agent Security Testing

Khaos SDK applies chaos engineering to AI agents — testing for prompt injection, tool misuse, and fault resilience. Here's what works and what doesn't.

Security & Adversarial AIAI Tools & Infrastructure

03/2026

→ Experiment 8 min

Autoresearch: When AI Agents Become Overnight Scientists

Karpathy's autoresearch ran 700 experiments in two days. I dissected the loop, tested its limits, and found the 2.8% hit rate nobody's talking about.

AI-Assisted DevelopmentAI Tools & Infrastructure

03/2026

→ Deep Dive 12 min

EchoLeak: Zero-Click Exfiltration Through Microsoft 365 Copilot

One email turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into a data exfiltration tool — no clicks, no user interaction. The attack bypasses every defense Microsoft built.

Security & Adversarial AIAI Tools & Infrastructure

02/2026

→ Deep Dive 12 min

Hybrid RNN-Attention: Efficiency Gains Are Real, Revolution Isn't

Hybrid architectures deliver up to 8x inference speedup, but no model has proved the concept at frontier scale. An optimization, not a paradigm break.