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The Thundering Herd of Agency: Protecting APIs from Autonomous Negotiation
Gary Marcus and the AI safety crowd are worried about bot swarms destabilizing democracy. That is a valid concern for sociologists.
As engineers, we have a more immediate problem: bot swarms destabilizing our primary keys.
We are entering...
Synthetic Data as Lossy Compression: The Entropy Risk in Model Training
We are approaching the “Data Wall.” Some estimates suggest high-quality public human text data will be exhausted this year. The industry’s reflex response is synthetic data: training models on the outputs of other models.
If you listen to...
Architecting for Mistrust: Designing Systems That Assume LLM Failure
LLM analysis currently oscillates between existential panic and marketing fluff. Neither provides a framework for managing a non-deterministic component in a production stack.
Ignore the ‘thinking’ metaphors. An LLM is a statistical mappin...
Treat Vague Prompts Like SQL Injection: A Security Perspective on ‘Specificity’
We treat database inputs with extreme paranoia. We sanitize strings, parameterize queries, and enforce rigid schemas because we know that DROP TABLE users is only one unescaped quote away.
Yet, when we architect LLM-based systems, we aba...
Why Distributed Systems Outlast Prompt Engineering
We are currently drowning in a surplus of tutorials on “prompt engineering”: the art of coercing a probabilistic model to output valid JSON. This is a transient problem. By 2028, model steering will be handled by the model providers via nat...
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