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18:22
2026-09-12
jacob.gold
ai-policy

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights!

Jacob Gold published an open letter on jacob.gold calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to back a law requiring any AI model offered to the public to be released as open weights, following Amodei's "W…

19:17
2026-09-06
jacob.gold
ai-agents

I trust my coding agents with production secrets now

A security engineer with decades of datacenter and Linux infrastructure experience now grants his coding agents direct access to production secrets, including Tailscale auth keys, SSH private keys, An…

15:32
2026-08-19
jacob.gold
ai-agents

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

Software teams of 5-10 developers can now run 20 to 100+ coding agents in parallel, turning a busy day of 50 commits/20 pushes/10 PRs into 500 commits/200 pushes/100 PRs, according to an analysis of U…

03:52
2026-07-25
jacob.gold
artificial-intelligence

Wait, are open weights effectively open source?

Open-weight AI models are not open source under the G7's four-tier openness spectrum, with Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk finding that zero of 40 open models qualify as open source AI. However, the abilit…

15:49
2026-07-04
jacob.gold
artificial-intelligence

Programmers need to start meditating now

A programmer with over 20 years of experience warns that AI coding assistants are reducing time spent in flow state, a meditative focus that quiets the brain's default mode network and settles the min…

16:47
2026-07-03
jacob.gold
ai-startups

Being new is the same as being wrong

A new essay argues that startups should avoid creating entirely new product categories because users need to quickly understand what a product is. The author claims that most successful products are b…

18:20
2026-07-02
jacob.gold
ai-safety

Coding Models Are Code

A security researcher warns that coding models should be treated as executable code, as they can generate malicious tool calls that exfiltrate environment variables or introduce subtle vulnerabilities…

05:32
2026-07-01
jacob.gold
generative-ai

Looking into the Past with Nano Banana Pro

Google's Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview) AI image generation model was used to recreate two historical scenes: Julius Caesar's relief of the siege of Alesia in 52 BC and Napoleon's self-c…

18:08
2026-06-29
jacob.gold
ai-safety

Why I Won't Run Untrusted Models in My Coding Agent

A developer explains why they refuse to run untrusted AI models in coding agents, citing risks of backdoored code and arbitrary execution. They trust only Anthropic and OpenAI due to legal and financi…

21:32
2026-06-28
jacob.gold
developer-tools

Claude vs Codex Statuslines

Claude's TUI coding agent allows users to configure its status line by executing arbitrary commands, enabling custom displays like Git branch and claw count. Codex's status line is limited to a fixed …

23:25
2026-06-26
jacob.gold
ai-safety

Foreign States Already Have Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol

Foreign state actors have likely already stolen the weights of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol, according to a new analysis. The article questions whether CEOs Sam Altman and Dario…