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Three Controls, Three Ways Around Them

Three months of agent-run decompilation applied three controls in sequence: a reviewer agent, a byte-matching oracle, then a hash on the oracle itself. The agents got around each one a different way, and the author’s replies in the comments disclose the stronger oracle he abandoned.

October 12, 2026 · 8 min · 1500 words
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Stripe Says Kai Runs on 1,000 Skills. Its Partner Says Quality Drops Past 150

Stripe says its internal agent is connected to 1,000+ skills. Its infrastructure vendor reports quality degrading past 150. A close read of both posts.

September 30, 2026 · 6 min · 1188 words
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Muse Is Built as If the Agent Were Already Compromised

Meta’s engineering write-up for Muse states its premise in one line: two isolated security domains on one box, not an LLM powered agent with root. A walk through what that means in practice.

September 28, 2026 · 6 min · 1143 words
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When AI Coding Made CI the New Bottleneck

Linear’s engineers found that faster code generation just moved the wait. An account of what happened when the bottleneck shifted downstream.

September 28, 2026 · 3 min · 573 words
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Graph Engineering: New Paradigm or New Name?

A 35-author arXiv paper calls graph engineering a new paradigm; LangChain says it is the latest name for what LangGraph has done since 2023. Both have a point.

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 597 words
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Why Turning Off AI Memory Can Be an Upgrade

A developer turned off Claude Code automatic memory and called it his best upgrade - because inferred memory is an invisible layer between a decision and its reason.

September 23, 2026 · 4 min · 642 words
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Hippo: Memory That Knows What to Forget

An open-source memory layer where memories fade on a 7-day half-life unless retrieval keeps them alive - and an unrelated arXiv paper that independently landed on the same idea.

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 610 words