Notes on AI this month

AI agents scared me this week, and not how you think. Not the doom stuff. The boring part: a loop I set ran for an hour doing slightly the wrong thing and I didn't notice. Autonomy without a watchful eye is just faster mistakes.

I'm not claiming this is true for everyone. It's true for me, and the version I'd tell a friend is shorter than the marketing version.

The pushback I get is always the same, and it's usually right at the edges, not the center. The center holds: the boring practice beats the clever one most days.

If you take one thing from this, let it be the unglamorous part. The flashy bit is what gets demos; the plain bit is what gets used.