“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher) Hitchens Razor We’re living in some dangerous times right now. Powerful people are making some pretty serious claims about what their technology systems can do with broad assurances that they’ll be good shepherds of the public interest. They’re “building” and deploying systems that […]
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Thanks to my friend Angie Jones at the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), I got to attend their flagship conference AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe in Amsterdam this month. Over the course of two and a half days I got to speak with a lot of really interesting people and listen to a ton of talks and […]
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Guess what, somebody did some actual research on testing agentic systems, and they accidentally found out that good software testing is hard. So, to celebrate their enlightenment and in homage to the AI bros’ insatiable desire to “discover” things, I’m coining a new term: Novelty laundering: Taking an old, well-established idea, ignoring its history and […]
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I’ve written in the past about the path we’re headed down in the software testing and quality engineering business. Expectations are being lowered to the point where AI generated and executed checks will be the primary method for testing systems. This will be paired with the “hands thrown up in the air” approach of the […]
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In our standard cynical mix of technologists first world willful ignorance, moral relativism, and “bought and paid for” integrity, there’s more high-profile resignations in the world of AI safety with a “slow down” called for by the biggest labs at the frontier. In a recent statement, the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei said this about […]
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