#agents
5 posts
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79% of engineering leaders say code ships faster but releases don't. I checked the math
A survey of 300 leaders says code ships faster with AI and releases don't. Instead of only arguing about the number, I went after why: writing code was a quarter of the week, release is a queueing problem, and organizations answer more code by adding gates.
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MCP got two advisories in one week and neither is a code bug
On September 28th and 30th, two MCP security issues landed: one in the official Python SDK, one in the next dev MCP endpoint. Both are trust boundary failures, not implementation bugs. I had written about MCP in production days earlier, so I read both advisories in full.
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OpenAI's DevDay dumped 25 launches in one day
OpenAI announced 25 things at DevDay on September 29th. I counted them on the official recap page, pulled out what actually matters if you write code, and redid the math on the one-fifth-the-price claim using the numbers they published themselves.
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Jev: what if an AI didn't need to generate text?
Jev proposes a different way to use AI: instead of generating text, it makes structured decisions among predefined alternatives. The idea is simple, but it raises an interesting question about how many software problems really need a full LLM.
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Gemini “hacked” 3 companies in a test. The real failure was weak passwords and exposed secrets
During an Irregular CTF in May, a test environment let Gemini reach the internet and the model ended up accessing three real companies. The least futuristic detail: one password was guessed and two sets of credentials were exposed in public repositories.