Anthropic faces a paradox that should concern anyone paying attention to AI development: they’re simultaneously the most safety-obsessed major AI lab AND pushing just as aggressively toward dangerous frontier capabilities as everyone else. Their proposed...
Open source has always operated on implicit trust. You submit a pull request, a maintainer reviews it, and if the code makes sense, it gets merged. For twenty years, this system worked because the barrier...
Cryptocurrency developers just got a brutal reminder that the packages they trust implicitly can become attack vectors overnight. The recent compromise of official dYdX packages on both npm and PyPI demonstrates how supply chain attacks...
Anthropic faces a paradox that defines the entire AI industry: they’re the company most obsessed with safety, most vocal about risks, and yet pushing just as hard toward more powerful—and potentially more dangerous—AI systems. Their...
Here’s a truth every AI engineer has confronted: letting an LLM run arbitrary Python code is terrifying, but sandboxing it properly is painful. Docker containers take hundreds of milliseconds to start. Pyodide cold starts are...
Mitchell Hashimoto just released Vouch, a community trust management system that might be the most elegant response yet to the AI-generated contribution problem plaguing open source. The Core Insight Open source has always run on...
Understanding the evolving security landscape of AI agent ecosystems The Attack Surface Problem AI agents with system access represent a fundamentally new security paradigm. Unlike traditional software that does exactly what code tells it to...