“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.
Continue readingThanks 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 demos on the future of agent protocols and standards, orchestration, evaluation, and real-world adoption.
Continue readingGuess 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:
Continue readingI’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 agentic coding community as they concede to Verification Asymmetry and just give up on reviewing AI generated code.
Continue readingIn 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.
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