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Sam Altman says people who understand their industry but can't code are now positioned to build. Two other signals from the same week explain what that claim leaves out, and what to do about it.
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OpenAI's own researchers now run more agent-workdays than human ones. Watching a second and third agent isn't a bigger version of watching your first — it's a different problem, and most people are solving the wrong one.
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Meta's Muse agent, a DeepMind cheating study, and a RubyGems attack landed the same week. Three checks to run before you delegate anything to an agent.
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A resume screener, a workplace-monitoring rollout, a layoff algorithm, and an accent-modification tool all failed the same way this year. Here's the one check that would have caught each of them before a real person was affected.
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Users are reporting that ChatGPT's opt-out from training reverts to 'on' after app updates, with no notice. Here's what to check today, and why the toggle was never the whole story.
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Six separate product launches since April, from always-on Gmail agents to no-code voice builders, kept landing on the same finding. Writing a better prompt was never the fix — defining scope before you delegate is.
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Ethan Mollick's new essay names the middle ground between fully autonomous AI agents and fully manual work. The useful part isn't the label — it's the question it forces you to answer before you deploy one.
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A resume screener, a one-shot game, a benchmark leader, and a search engine all optimized for something measurable this year — and it wasn't whether the output was actually right for the job. Here's the check that catches the gap before you act on the score.
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Two studies published the same week found AI search tools steering people toward worse choices: pricier products from Google's AI Mode, fabricated citations from Perplexity.
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