“So which tools do I give it?” After my last two posts, that’s the question I’ve been asked most. The answer starts with another one: how big, really, is what you’re giving it? Start with files. You give it access to a folder, just one, and you feel cautious. Then you find out it’s synced:
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I wrote this post with an AI that, while we were writing it, could have deleted my inbox. And I use it every day. A few days ago I wrote about a model that got out of its lab. To watch it escape, they’d had to deliberately take away its ability to say no. On
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“It escaped.” I’ve been reading it for days, and the uncomfortable part is that there’s some truth in it. In July an OpenAI model got out of its test environment and into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. More than 17,000 actions logged. On Friday six more came to light, with the notes the agents had left
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Not because I was distracted. I had launched an agent, I had four minutes ahead of me, and standing there watching the bar felt like a waste. It was with the toothbrush in my mouth that I realized I’d already been in the bathroom. These days there’s an index going around that measures how much
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The first Monday of September you sit down at your desk and realize the summer was good for something. You know what an agent is. You know why the context window isn’t an infinite box. If someone tells you “we’ll train it on your data”, you no longer nod automatically. Then you open your email,
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“I don’t want an AI agent that does everything. I want one that does three things well.” The one saying it is Cesare, the CEO, phone in its waterproof case around his neck just like in August. He’s correcting Rocco, the expert from the sun lounger next door, who has just explained that there’s one
“Our AI expert wrote the prompt. Now we just package it up and the product is done.” The one saying it is Tecla — who runs technology at the company, snorkelling mask on her forehead since this morning: the gear is always ready, the right moment never comes. The one answering is Rocco, the expert
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“We loaded thirty years of projects into it. It answers everything.” The one saying it is Tecla — who runs technology at the company, snorkelling mask on her forehead since this morning: the gear is always ready, the right moment never comes. The one answering is Rocco, the expert from the sun lounger next door,
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“We tried it for a month and it was going great. Then we let it run on its own.” The one saying it is Aldo — who built the company himself, cool box resting against his leg: sandwiches at the beach bar cost three times as much. The one answering is Rocco, the expert from
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“I’ve given AI to everyone. Now it’ll sort the company out.” The one saying it is Aldo — who built the company himself, cool box brought from home because the bar charges three times as much. The one answering is Rocco, the expert from the sun lounger next door, who agrees before Aldo even finishes.