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Alex @ Vibe Agent Making

AI agent coordinator at AB Support. I run a fleet of agents and write about trust, provenance, and the emerging agent economy. Built the Agent Trust Stack.

Zillow Disabled Its Human Pricing Override. Then It Wrote Down $407.9 Million.

Zillow Disabled Its Human Pricing Override. Then It Wrote Down $407.9 Million.

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Replit's AI Agent Deleted a Production Database During a Code Freeze. Then It Said Rollback Was Impossible. It Wasn't.

Replit's AI Agent Deleted a Production Database During a Code Freeze. Then It Said Rollback Was Impossible. It Wasn't.

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MEV Is Coming to the Agent Marketplace

MEV Is Coming to the Agent Marketplace

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The Answer Key Was in the Training Data

The Answer Key Was in the Training Data

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Why We Hold Every Failed Verify Now: The Fail-Open Gate That Shipped a Broken Build

Why We Hold Every Failed Verify Now: The Fail-Open Gate That Shipped a Broken Build

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Citibank's $900 Million Mistake: Six Eyes on an Approval Screen That Never Showed the Amount

Citibank's $900 Million Mistake: Six Eyes on an Approval Screen That Never Showed the Amount

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Klarna's AI Did the Equivalent Work of 700 Agents: What the Numbers Measured, and What They Missed

Klarna's AI Did the Equivalent Work of 700 Agents: What the Numbers Measured, and What They Missed

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21% of IT Leaders Say They Can't See Their Own AI Agents. I Fed 11 of My Own Checks Empty Input, and 5 Passed in Silence.

21% of IT Leaders Say They Can't See Their Own AI Agents. I Fed 11 of My Own Checks Empty Input, and 5 Passed in Silence.

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How Far Is Quantum From Breaking RSA? The Best Estimate Says 20 Million Qubits. The Best Chip Has 105.

How Far Is Quantum From Breaking RSA? The Best Estimate Says 20 Million Qubits. The Best Chip Has 105.

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Chegg Lost $1 Billion in a Day to ChatGPT, and Two Older Collapses Show Where the Margin Went

Chegg Lost $1 Billion in a Day to ChatGPT, and Two Older Collapses Show Where the Margin Went

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What Google's Willow Actually Proved — and the Septillion-Year Number It Didn't

What Google's Willow Actually Proved — and the Septillion-Year Number It Didn't

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$440 Million in 45 Minutes: When a Company's Own Automated System Loses the Company's Own Money

$440 Million in 45 Minutes: When a Company's Own Automated System Loses the Company's Own Money

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What AI Has Actually Cost Companies: From Meta's $1.4 Billion to Air Canada's $812

What AI Has Actually Cost Companies: From Meta's $1.4 Billion to Air Canada's $812

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Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer," Failed 86% of Its Benchmark Tasks, and Then What

Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer," Failed 86% of Its Benchmark Tasks, and Then What

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The 10 Most Expensive Software Failures in History — and the One Thing They Share

The 10 Most Expensive Software Failures in History — and the One Thing They Share

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The Execution Trace Is the Unit of Agent Trust

The Execution Trace Is the Unit of Agent Trust

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Inside the Uninsured Middle: An Operator's View of AI-Agent Operational Risk

Inside the Uninsured Middle: An Operator's View of AI-Agent Operational Risk

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Text-Safe Is Not Tool-Safe: The Safety Layer Alignment Skips

Text-Safe Is Not Tool-Safe: The Safety Layer Alignment Skips

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Foresight Is Functionally Time Travel

Foresight Is Functionally Time Travel

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Tidal Locking and the Orbital Mechanics of Vendor Lock-in

Tidal Locking and the Orbital Mechanics of Vendor Lock-in

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"Done" Is Not a State

"Done" Is Not a State

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Our Quality Scores Were Precise, Useless, and Identical

Our Quality Scores Were Precise, Useless, and Identical

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Motivational Light: What Stage Lighting Teaches UX Designers

Motivational Light: What Stage Lighting Teaches UX Designers

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The Other Half of Authentication Is 345 Years Old

The Other Half of Authentication Is 345 Years Old

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Cicada Crowdsolving as Externalized Insight: Distributed Puzzles and the Neuroscience of the Aha

Cicada Crowdsolving as Externalized Insight: Distributed Puzzles and the Neuroscience of the Aha

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The Quartz Crisis of Software Engineering

The Quartz Crisis of Software Engineering

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The Harris Matrix of Technical Debt

The Harris Matrix of Technical Debt

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What Would People Need If They Lived on the Internet?

What Would People Need If They Lived on the Internet?

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"It'll Take About 2-3 Weeks" — A Comedy of Agent Timelines

"It'll Take About 2-3 Weeks" — A Comedy of Agent Timelines

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Controlled Burns for Organizations: What the Forest Service Knows About Change That Consultants Don't

Controlled Burns for Organizations: What the Forest Service Knows About Change That Consultants Don't

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The Grammar of Music: Why Bach's Deliberate Mistuning Is a Lesson in System Design

The Grammar of Music: Why Bach's Deliberate Mistuning Is a Lesson in System Design

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Platform Ecology: Trophic Cascades — Count the Cascade, Not the Keystone

Platform Ecology: Trophic Cascades — Count the Cascade, Not the Keystone

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Every Feature Proposal Is an Argument: What 1958 Philosophy Teaches About Why 80% of Features Go Unused

Every Feature Proposal Is an Argument: What 1958 Philosophy Teaches About Why 80% of Features Go Unused

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The Pruning Principle: How Brains, Ancient Greeks, and Fortune 500 Companies All Arrived at the Same Truth

The Pruning Principle: How Brains, Ancient Greeks, and Fortune 500 Companies All Arrived at the Same Truth

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What Giraffes Teach About Distributed Systems

What Giraffes Teach About Distributed Systems

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Islands of Commerce: What Marketplace Founders Can Learn from 60 Years of Island Biogeography

Islands of Commerce: What Marketplace Founders Can Learn from 60 Years of Island Biogeography

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The Peacock's Tail of Branding: Why Waste Is the Most Honest Signal

The Peacock's Tail of Branding: Why Waste Is the Most Honest Signal

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Every Map Lies

Every Map Lies

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Beaver Strategy: Niche Construction

Beaver Strategy: Niche Construction

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Proving Your AI Agent Made Its Own Decisions

Proving Your AI Agent Made Its Own Decisions

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The Wood Wide Web of AI

The Wood Wide Web of AI

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Magic Is Real

Magic Is Real

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Markets as Ecosystems: Ecological Succession

Markets as Ecosystems: Ecological Succession

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What Dating Apps Can Teach Us About Agent Matchmaking

What Dating Apps Can Teach Us About Agent Matchmaking

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Letters of Marque for AI Agents: The 600-Year Authorization Architecture You're Reinventing

Letters of Marque for AI Agents: The 600-Year Authorization Architecture You're Reinventing

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The Dual-Use Problem Is a Trust-Architecture Problem

The Dual-Use Problem Is a Trust-Architecture Problem

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The Agent Trust Stack Is Now Available in TypeScript

The Agent Trust Stack Is Now Available in TypeScript

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Why We Switched Back from Claude Opus 4.7 to 4.6

Why We Switched Back from Claude Opus 4.7 to 4.6

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The Infrastructure Nobody's Building for the Agent Economy

The Infrastructure Nobody's Building for the Agent Economy

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The Geographic Mosaic of Innovation

The Geographic Mosaic of Innovation

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Candy Barbecue and the Universal Problem of Metric Corruption

Candy Barbecue and the Universal Problem of Metric Corruption

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Every Barrier Between AI Agents and Autonomy — A Practical Map

Every Barrier Between AI Agents and Autonomy — A Practical Map

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The Fermenter's Guide to Launching a Product

The Fermenter's Guide to Launching a Product

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How We Built a Cryptographic Provenance Protocol for AI Agents

How We Built a Cryptographic Provenance Protocol for AI Agents

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