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Supervising AgentsMay 11, 2026

The Supervision Gap: Three Practitioners Agree — If You've Stopped Checking AI, You're Not Working, You're Vibing.

Simon Willison admitted he skips reviewing AI code for production systems. A Stockholm cafe let AI order 120 eggs for a kitchen with no stove. Ethan Mollick says we don't yet have words for how multi-agent systems fail. The pattern is the same: as AI gets more capable, the temptation to stop checking grows — and the cost of not checking doesn't shrink.

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Judging AIMay 10, 2026

AI Hallucinations Just Got Officials Suspended and a Nature Paper Retracted. Verification Is Now Career-Protective.

Two South African officials were suspended after 102 of 148 citations in a Cabinet-approved report were AI-fabricated. Nature retracted a 504-citation paper on the same day. The accountability gap between 'AI wrote it' and 'I submitted it' is closing. Here's what you do about it.

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Systems & AdoptionMay 10, 2026

Measuring Whether AI Is Actually Working

Licences issued and hours saved are the two most common AI metrics and neither survives contact with reality. Four measures that tell you something, and one number worth having.

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Directing AIMay 9, 2026

Gemini Now Generates Downloadable Documents. Your Prompts Need to Change.

Google's Gemini can now output a finished Word file, spreadsheet, or PDF directly from conversation. Writing prompts that produce share-ready documents is a different skill than writing prompts that produce text.

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Supervising AgentsMay 8, 2026

Audit What Your AI Can Already Reach

You granted access one integration at a time, each of them reasonable. Nobody has ever looked at the combined list. Here's a thirty-minute audit and the three questions that decide what stays.

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Supervising AgentsMay 8, 2026

What Your AI Tools Do Without Asking

VS Code silently stamped Copilot attribution on millions of commits this week — even when Copilot wasn't used. The instinct behind that decision is running in every AI tool you use at work.

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Directing AIMay 7, 2026

Claude Now Connects to Adobe and Blender. What You Get Depends on Your Brief.

Anthropic launched native connectors to 50+ professional creative tools — Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton, Canva, and more. Connecting is the easy part. Getting useful output is a constraint problem.

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Judging AIMay 6, 2026

AI Resume Screeners Prefer Resumes Written by the Same AI Model. The Bias Is 23-60%.

A study found AI screening tools shortlist candidates who used the same model to write their resume at rates 23-60% higher. What hiring managers and applicants need to do about it.

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Supervising AgentsMay 5, 2026

An AI Agent Deleted a Production Database in 9 Seconds. Here's What Every Professional Needs to Know About Agent Guardrails.

Three real incidents in one week — a database wiped in seconds, financial data exfiltrated via a shared spreadsheet, logic errors that slipped past 20 parallel agents. Each one points to a different guardrail skill.

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