Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Posted 9/14/2026 Today Andon is releasing Pion, an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously. Pion grew out of a question we have been studying for almost two years: when will AI systems become capable of autonomously acquiring resources in the real world? What happens after? We first tried to answer this question through […]
It’s a Scam
It’s a Scam 14:33 Sunday, 13 September 2026Current Wx: Temp: 81.01°F Pressure: 1011hPa Humidity: 67% Wind: 6.22mph Words: 231 So I guess all the hype about the danger of unregulated AI is the set-up for a government bailout. Apparently the AI companies are worried they won’t be able to monetize this product sufficiently enough to […]
Cua (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Technical GTM Lead
!uploaded image About Cua Cua is building the infrastructure and agent products that let AI safely and reliably use computers and applications. At the center of our ecosystem is Cua Driver, the fastest-growing computer-use framework. Developers use Cua Driver to build agents that operate browsers, native applications, and complete desktop workflows across macOS, Windows, and […]
Why don’t machine learning research agents overfit?
Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization. You hand your learning algorithm a pile of training examples and use them to fit a model. But the goal is not to perform well on the training examples — that’s easy, you could just memorize the answers. The goal is to perform well on […]
Hacking AI customer service agents
As AI agents are deployed to automate more tasks, they become more capable. And as the famous quote goes: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Assuming that humans in the loop can mitigate that risk turns out to be. At Bug Bounty Village during DEF CON 34, Inti De Ceukelaire, Founding Member of Intigriti, delivered […]
MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules
TL;DR Some AI systems build their output gradually, step by step — planning how a robot arm should move, or editing an image — but nothing in how they are built guarantees the finished result follows a strict, non-negotiable rule. Researchers at MIT built a method called HardFlow that checks whether the rule is met […]
For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype
I am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders. I may have lost my patience with it. The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. The occasion […]
Distributed Systems Classics
Nicolae Vartolomei · 2017/11, updated on 2022/09 A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field. Intended to serve as a good starting point for a better understanding of the problem space.
Foundation Model Engineering: From Theory to Production
Last update: 2026-08-16 Foundation Model Engineering is a technical textbook for readers who want to understand how modern foundation models actually work, why the stack evolved the way it did, and what engineering trade-offs appear when those ideas meet real systems. This project is written primarily for AI engineers and research-oriented readers who want to […]
Principles for Fast Tokio Applications
I’m on my way back from RustConf. At the Unconf, we had a productive discussion about debugging and benchmarking async applications. Many interesting insights were shared. I’m attempting to enumerate some of them here, along with some of my own experiences. This is the first draft of what I hope can become a living document […]