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Working notes from the sharp end.

AI tooling, hardening, the gap between demo and production.

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The Unintended Consequences of a Lying Machine

In 44 BC, Rome's most devoted republicans stabbed Caesar to stop a monarchy and got an empire. In 1902, French administrators in Hanoi offered a penny per rat tail and got rat farms. Both disasters share a cause. So does the way we are building AI.

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