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AGI Dreams Podcast – April 17, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Anthropic
• 0:00
  shipped
• 0:01
  Claude
• 0:01
  Opus
• 0:01
  4.7
• 0:02
  today,
• 0:03
  and
• 0:03
  the
• 0:03
  headline
• 0:03
  numbers
• 0:04
  are
• 0:04
  hard
• 0:04
  to
• 0:04
  ignore.
• 0:05
  On
• 0:06
  CursorBench,
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  it
• 0:07
  jumps
• 0:07
  from
• 0:07
  58%
• 0:08
  (Opus
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  4.6)
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  to
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  70%.
• 0:10
  On
• 0:10
  Rakuten-SWE-Bench,
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  it
• 0:12
  resolves
• 0:12
  three
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  times
• 0:13
  more
• 0:13
  production
• 0:13
  tasks
• 0:14
  than
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  its
• 0:14
  predecessor.
• 0:15
  XBOW's
• 0:16
  visual-acuity
• 0:17
  benchmark
• 0:17
  —
• 0:18
  critical
• 0:18
  for
• 0:18
  computer-use
• 0:19
  agents
• 0:19
  reading
• 0:19
  dense
• 0:19
  screenshots
• 0:20
  —
• 0:21
  leapt
• 0:21
  from
• 0:21
  54.5%
• 0:22
  to
• 0:22
  98.5%.
• 0:24
  Notion
• 0:24
  reports
• 0:25
  14%
• 0:26
  higher
• 0:26
  task
• 0:26
  completion
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  at
• 0:27
  fewer
• 0:27
  tokens
• 0:27
  and
• 0:27
  a
• 0:27
  third
• 0:28
  of
• 0:28
  the
• 0:28
  tool
• 0:28
  errors.
• 0:29
  The
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  model
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  also
• 0:30
  accepts
• 0:30
  images
• 0:31
  up
• 0:31
  to
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  2,576
• 0:32
  pixels
• 0:33
  on
• 0:33
  the
• 0:33
  long
• 0:33
  edge
• 0:34
  (~3.75
• 0:35
  megapixels),
• 0:36
  more
• 0:36
  than
• 0:36
  triple
• 0:36
  prior
• 0:37
  Claude
• 0:37
  models,
• 0:38
  which
• 0:38
  unlocks
• 0:38
  multimodal
• 0:39
  use
• 0:39
  cases
• 0:39
  from
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  patent
• 0:40
  diagram
• 0:40
  analysis
• 0:41
  to
• 0:41
  dense
• 0:41
  screenshot
• 0:41
  parsing.
• 0:42
  Anthropic
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  is
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  also
• 0:43
  releasing
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  a
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  new
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  "extra
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  high"
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  effort
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  level,
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  task
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  budgets
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  in
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  public
• 0:46
  beta,
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  and
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  an
• 0:47
  "ultra
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  review"
• 0:48
  mode
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  that
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  produces
• 0:49
  a
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  dedicated
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  review
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  session
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  flagging
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  bugs
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  and
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  design
• 0:51
  issues
• 0:51
  a
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  careful
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  human
• 0:52
  reviewer
• 0:52
  would
• 0:53
  catch.
• 0:54
  What
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  matters
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  more
• 0:54
  than
• 0:54
  the
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  benchmarks,
• 0:55
  though,
• 0:55
  is
• 0:55
  the
• 0:55
  long-context
• 0:56
  coherence
• 0:56
  story.
• 0:57
  Cole
• 0:58
  Medin's
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  early
• 0:58
  testing
• 0:59
  highlights
• 0:59
  the
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  practical
• 1:00
  shift:
• 1:00
  with
• 1:00
  Opus
• 1:01
  4.6,
• 1:02
  quality
• 1:03
  would
• 1:03
  drift
• 1:03
  meaningfully
• 1:04
  around
• 1:04
  250,000
• 1:05
  tokens
• 1:05
  into
• 1:06
  a
• 1:06
  run
• 1:06
  —
• 1:07
  the
• 1:07
  agent
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  would
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  write
• 1:08
  confidently
• 1:08
  while
• 1:08
  the
• 1:08
  plan
• 1:09
  quietly
• 1:09
  derailed.
• 1:10
  Opus
• 1:11
  4.7
• 1:11
  maintains
• 1:12
  lucidity
• 1:12
  "hundreds
• 1:13
  of
• 1:13
  thousands
• 1:13
  of
• 1:14
  tokens"
• 1:14
  into
• 1:14
  an
• 1:15
  agentic
• 1:15
  session,
• 1:16
  still
• 1:16
  referencing
• 1:16
  earlier
• 1:17
  decisions
• 1:17
  correctly
• 1:18
  and
• 1:18
  making
• 1:18
  moves
• 1:19
  that
• 1:19
  fit
• 1:19
  the
• 1:19
  original
• 1:19
  plan.
• 1:20
  That
• 1:21
  is
• 1:21
  the
• 1:21
  difference
• 1:21
  between
• 1:22
  an
• 1:22
  agent
• 1:22
  you
• 1:22
  supervise
• 1:23
  and
• 1:23
  one
• 1:23
  you
• 1:23
  hand
• 1:23
  off.
• 1:24
  As
• 1:24
  Medin
• 1:25
  puts
• 1:25
  it,
• 1:25
  "SWE-bench
• 1:26
  will
• 1:26
  be
• 1:26
  today's
• 1:26
  headline.
• 1:27
  Long-context
• 1:28
  coherence
• 1:29
  is
• 1:29
  the
• 1:29
  story
• 1:29
  for
• 1:29
  the
• 1:29
  next
• 1:30
  six
• 1:30
  months."
• 1:31
  Anthropic
• 1:31
  is
• 1:31
  not
• 1:32
  alone
• 1:32
  in
• 1:32
  the
• 1:32
  agentic
• 1:32
  coding
• 1:33
  race.
• 1:34
  Alibaba
• 1:34
  released
• 1:34
  Qwen3.6-35B-A3B,
• 1:39
  a
• 1:40
  Mixture-of-Experts
• 1:40
  model
• 1:41
  that
• 1:41
  activates
• 1:41
  only
• 1:41
  3
• 1:42
  billion
• 1:42
  of
• 1:42
  its
• 1:42
  35
• 1:43
  billion
• 1:43
  parameters
• 1:44
  per
• 1:44
  forward
• 1:44
  pass
• 1:44
  —
• 1:45
  meaning
• 1:45
  it
• 1:46
  can
• 1:46
  run
• 1:46
  on
• 1:46
  hardware
• 1:46
  with
• 1:47
  22GB
• 1:47
  of
• 1:48
  total
• 1:48
  memory
• 1:48
  while
• 1:49
  competing
• 1:49
  with
• 1:49
  models
• 1:49
  many
• 1:50
  times
• 1:50
  its
• 1:50
  computational
• 1:51
  cost.
• 1:52
  It
• 1:52
  supports
• 1:53
  256K
• 1:54
  context
• 1:54
  across
• 1:55
  201
• 1:55
  languages
• 1:56
  and
• 1:56
  targets
• 1:56
  agentic
• 1:57
  coding
• 1:57
  workloads
• 1:57
  specifically.
• 1:58
  Unsloth
• 1:59
  has
• 1:59
  already
• 1:59
  published
• 2:00
  quantized
• 2:00
  GGUFs
• 2:01
  with
• 2:01
  calibrated
• 2:02
  quantization
• 2:03
  on
• 2:03
  real-world
• 2:03
  datasets,
• 2:04
  along
• 2:05
  with
• 2:05
  detailed
• 2:05
  inference
• 2:06
  guides
• 2:06
  for
• 2:06
  llama.cpp,
• 2:08
  MLX
• 2:09
  on
• 2:09
  Apple
• 2:09
  Silicon,
• 2:10
  and
• 2:10
  integration
• 2:11
  with
• 2:11
  Claude
• 2:11
  Code
• 2:11
  and
• 2:11
  OpenAI
• 2:12
  Codex
• 2:12
  via
• 2:13
  local
• 2:13
  OpenAI-compatible
• 2:14
  servers.
• 2:15
  Unsloth's
• 2:16
  documentation
• 2:17
  also
• 2:17
  introduces
• 2:17
  Unsloth
• 2:18
  Studio,
• 2:19
  a
• 2:19
  new
• 2:19
  open-source
• 2:20
  web
• 2:20
  UI
• 2:20
  for
• 2:20
  running
• 2:20
  and
• 2:21
  fine-tuning
• 2:21
  models
• 2:21
  locally.
• 2:22
  A
• 2:22
  2-bit
• 2:24
  Qwen3.6
• 2:25
  GGUF
• 2:25
  reportedly
• 2:26
  made
• 2:26
  30+
• 2:27
  tool
• 2:27
  calls,
• 2:27
  searched
• 2:27
  20
• 2:28
  sites,
• 2:28
  and
• 2:28
  executed
• 2:29
  Python
• 2:29
  code
• 2:29
  —
• 2:30
  all
• 2:30
  locally.
• 2:31
  Meanwhile,
• 2:31
  a
• 2:31
  thread
• 2:32
  on
• 2:32
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 2:33
  claims
• 2:33
  a
• 2:33
  "major
• 2:34
  drop
• 2:34
  in
• 2:34
  intelligence
• 2:34
  across
• 2:35
  most
• 2:35
  major
• 2:35
  models"
• 2:35
  —
• 2:36
  Claude,
• 2:37
  Gemini,
• 2:37
  z.ai,
• 2:38
  Grok
• 2:38
  —
• 2:38
  all
• 2:38
  reportedly
• 2:39
  ignoring
• 2:39
  basic
• 2:40
  instructions,
• 2:40
  producing
• 2:41
  shallow
• 2:41
  output,
• 2:42
  and
• 2:42
  responding
• 2:42
  slowly.
• 2:43
  One
• 2:43
  user
• 2:44
  tested
• 2:44
  GLM
• 2:44
  5
• 2:45
  with
• 2:45
  identical
• 2:45
  prompts
• 2:46
  on
• 2:46
  a
• 2:46
  rented
• 2:46
  H100
• 2:47
  versus
• 2:47
  z.ai's
• 2:48
  hosted
• 2:48
  version
• 2:49
  and
• 2:49
  got
• 2:49
  correct
• 2:49
  answers
• 2:49
  only
• 2:50
  from
• 2:50
  the
• 2:50
  self-hosted
• 2:50
  instance.
• 2:51
  The
• 2:52
  community's
• 2:52
  leading
• 2:52
  hypothesis:
• 2:53
  providers
• 2:54
  are
• 2:54
  aggressively
• 2:54
  quantizing
• 2:55
  hosted
• 2:55
  models
• 2:56
  to
• 2:56
  cut
• 2:56
  costs,
• 2:57
  potentially
• 2:57
  serving
• 2:57
  different
• 2:58
  quality
• 2:58
  tiers
• 2:58
  based
• 2:59
  on
• 2:59
  user
• 2:59
  profiles.
• 3:00
  One
• 3:00
  commenter
• 3:01
  suggests
• 3:01
  detecting
• 3:02
  silent
• 3:02
  quantization
• 3:03
  by
• 3:03
  tracking
• 3:03
  covariance
• 3:04
  between
• 3:04
  models
• 3:04
  on
• 3:04
  public
• 3:05
  benchmark
• 3:05
  question
• 3:06
  sets
• 3:06
  across
• 3:06
  time
• 3:06
  and
• 3:07
  peak
• 3:07
  hours.
• 3:08
  The
• 3:08
  irony
• 3:08
  is
• 3:09
  thick
• 3:09
  —
• 3:09
  the
• 3:09
  same
• 3:10
  week
• 3:10
  Anthropic
• 3:10
  ships
• 3:11
  a
• 3:11
  measurably
• 3:11
  better
• 3:12
  model,
• 3:12
  the
• 3:12
  broader
• 3:12
  cloud
• 3:13
  inference
• 3:13
  ecosystem
• 3:14
  may
• 3:14
  be
• 3:14
  quietly
• 3:14
  degrading.
• 3:21
  A
• 3:21
  buyer
• 3:21
  using
• 3:21
  the
• 3:21
  alias
• 3:22
  "Kris"
• 3:22
  —
• 3:22
  background
• 3:23
  in
• 3:23
  SEO,
• 3:24
  crypto,
• 3:24
  and
• 3:24
  online
• 3:25
  gambling
• 3:25
  marketing
• 3:25
  —
• 3:26
  purchased
• 3:26
  30+
• 3:26
  WordPress
• 3:27
  plugins
• 3:27
  from
• 3:27
  the
• 3:27
  "Essential
• 3:28
  Plugin"
• 3:28
  portfolio
• 3:29
  on
• 3:29
  Flippa
• 3:29
  for
• 3:29
  six
• 3:30
  figures
• 3:30
  in
• 3:30
  late
• 3:30
  2024.
• 3:31
  The
• 3:31
  portfolio
• 3:32
  had
• 3:32
  been
• 3:32
  built
• 3:32
  over
• 3:33
  eight
• 3:33
  years
• 3:33
  by
• 3:33
  an
• 3:33
  India-based
• 3:34
  team,
• 3:34
  accumulating
• 3:35
  hundreds
• 3:35
  of
• 3:35
  thousands
• 3:36
  of
• 3:36
  active
• 3:36
  installations.
• 3:37
  The
• 3:37
  buyer's
• 3:38
  very
• 3:38
  first
• 3:38
  SVN
• 3:39
  commit
• 3:39
  planted
• 3:39
  a
• 3:39
  PHP
• 3:40
  deserialization
• 3:41
  backdoor
• 3:41
  —
• 3:42
  a
• 3:42
  textbook
• 3:42
  unserialize()
• 3:43
  arbitrary
• 3:43
  function
• 3:44
  call
• 3:44
  hidden
• 3:44
  inside
• 3:45
  what
• 3:45
  the
• 3:45
  changelog
• 3:45
  described
• 3:46
  as
• 3:46
  a
• 3:46
  WordPress
• 3:46
  compatibility
• 3:47
  check.
• 3:48
  It
• 3:48
  sat
• 3:48
  dormant
• 3:48
  for
• 3:49
  eight
• 3:49
  months
• 3:49
  before
• 3:49
  activating
• 3:50
  on
• 3:50
  April
• 3:50
  5–6,
• 3:51
  2026.
• 3:53
  The
• 3:53
  sophistication
• 3:54
  is
• 3:54
  worth
• 3:54
  noting.
• 3:56
  The
• 3:56
  injected
• 3:56
  payload
• 3:57
  resolved
• 3:57
  its
• 3:57
  command-and-control
• 3:58
  domain
• 3:58
  through
• 3:59
  an
• 3:59
  Ethereum
• 3:59
  smart
• 3:59
  contract,
• 4:00
  querying
• 4:01
  public
• 4:01
  blockchain
• 4:02
  RPC
• 4:02
  endpoints
• 4:02
  —
• 4:03
  making
• 4:03
  traditional
• 4:04
  domain
• 4:04
  takedowns
• 4:05
  ineffective
• 4:06
  because
• 4:06
  the
• 4:06
  attacker
• 4:06
  could
• 4:07
  update
• 4:07
  the
• 4:07
  smart
• 4:07
  contract
• 4:08
  to
• 4:08
  point
• 4:08
  to
• 4:08
  a
• 4:08
  new
• 4:08
  domain
• 4:09
  at
• 4:09
  any
• 4:09
  time.
• 4:10
  The
• 4:10
  malware
• 4:11
  served
• 4:11
  SEO
• 4:11
  spam
• 4:12
  exclusively
• 4:12
  to
• 4:12
  Googlebot,
• 4:13
  rendering
• 4:13
  it
• 4:14
  invisible
• 4:14
  to
• 4:14
  site
• 4:14
  owners.
• 4:15
  WordPress.org
• 4:16
  responded
• 4:17
  by
• 4:17
  closing
• 4:17
  all
• 4:18
  31
• 4:18
  plugins
• 4:19
  in
• 4:19
  a
• 4:19
  single
• 4:19
  day
• 4:19
  and
• 4:19
  forcing
• 4:20
  an
• 4:20
  auto-update,
• 4:21
  but
• 4:21
  the
• 4:21
  forced
• 4:21
  update
• 4:22
  only
• 4:22
  neutralized
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  phone-home
• 4:23
  mechanism
• 4:24
  in
• 4:24
  the
• 4:24
  plugin
• 4:24
  itself
• 4:24
  —
• 4:25
  it
• 4:25
  did
• 4:25
  not
• 4:26
  clean
• 4:26
  wp-config.php,
• 4:28
  where
• 4:28
  the
• 4:28
  backdoor
• 4:28
  had
• 4:28
  already
• 4:29
  injected
• 4:29
  its
• 4:29
  payload.
• 4:30
  This
• 4:30
  is
• 4:31
  the
• 4:31
  same
• 4:31
  playbook
• 4:31
  as
• 4:31
  the
• 4:31
  2017
• 4:32
  Display
• 4:32
  Widgets
• 4:33
  attack
• 4:33
  (200,000
• 4:34
  installs,
• 4:35
  payday
• 4:35
  loan
• 4:35
  spam),
• 4:36
  except
• 4:36
  at
• 4:36
  15
• 4:37
  times
• 4:37
  the
• 4:37
  scale.
• 4:38
  WordPress.org
• 4:39
  still
• 4:39
  has
• 4:39
  no
• 4:40
  mechanism
• 4:40
  to
• 4:40
  flag
• 4:41
  or
• 4:41
  review
• 4:41
  plugin
• 4:42
  ownership
• 4:42
  transfers,
• 4:43
  no
• 4:43
  change-of-control
• 4:44
  notification
• 4:44
  to
• 4:45
  users,
• 4:45
  and
• 4:46
  no
• 4:46
  additional
• 4:46
  code
• 4:46
  review
• 4:47
  triggered
• 4:47
  by
• 4:47
  a
• 4:47
  new
• 4:47
  committer.
• 4:48
  The
• 4:48
  plugin
• 4:49
  marketplace
• 4:49
  trust
• 4:50
  problem
• 4:50
  connects
• 4:50
  to
• 4:50
  a
• 4:50
  broader
• 4:51
  theme
• 4:51
  about
• 4:51
  security
• 4:52
  friction.
• 4:53
  A
• 4:53
  Semgrep
• 4:53
  blog
• 4:54
  post
• 4:54
  argues
• 4:54
  that
• 4:54
  security
• 4:55
  controls
• 4:55
  which
• 4:55
  frustrate
• 4:56
  developers
• 4:56
  actively
• 4:57
  make
• 4:57
  systems
• 4:58
  less
• 4:58
  secure
• 4:58
  —
• 4:59
  people
• 4:59
  bypass
• 5:00
  what
• 5:00
  gets
• 5:00
  in
• 5:00
  their
• 5:00
  way.
• 5:02
  The
• 5:02
  piece
• 5:02
  makes
• 5:02
  a
• 5:02
  familiar
• 5:03
  but
• 5:03
  underappreciated
• 5:04
  point:
• 5:05
  most
• 5:05
  developers
• 5:05
  do
• 5:05
  not
• 5:06
  focus
• 5:06
  on
• 5:06
  security
• 5:07
  unless
• 5:07
  forced
• 5:07
  to,
• 5:08
  most
• 5:09
  organizations
• 5:09
  provide
• 5:10
  no
• 5:10
  security
• 5:10
  training,
• 5:11
  and
• 5:12
  tools
• 5:12
  that
• 5:12
  produce
• 5:12
  long
• 5:13
  lists
• 5:13
  of
• 5:13
  false
• 5:14
  positives
• 5:14
  erode
• 5:14
  trust
• 5:15
  until
• 5:15
  they
• 5:15
  are
• 5:15
  ignored
• 5:16
  entirely.
• 5:17
  The
• 5:17
  prescription
• 5:18
  is
• 5:18
  to
• 5:18
  surface
• 5:18
  findings
• 5:19
  immediately
• 5:19
  during
• 5:20
  code
• 5:20
  creation,
• 5:21
  use
• 5:21
  AI
• 5:22
  for
• 5:22
  triage
• 5:22
  and
• 5:23
  noise
• 5:23
  reduction
• 5:24
  (not
• 5:24
  as
• 5:24
  a
• 5:24
  source
• 5:24
  of
• 5:25
  truth),
• 5:25
  and
• 5:25
  reward
• 5:26
  teams
• 5:26
  for
• 5:26
  issues
• 5:27
  fixed
• 5:27
  rather
• 5:27
  than
• 5:28
  penalizing
• 5:28
  for
• 5:28
  issues
• 5:29
  found.
• 5:30
  Security
• 5:30
  friction
• 5:30
  is
• 5:31
  not
• 5:31
  a
• 5:31
  software
• 5:31
  problem
• 5:32
  —
• 5:32
  it
• 5:32
  is
• 5:33
  an
• 5:33
  organizational
• 5:33
  design
• 5:34
  problem.
• 5:35
  On
• 5:35
  the
• 5:35
  web
• 5:35
  platform
• 5:36
  side,
• 5:36
  Google
• 5:37
  is
• 5:37
  expanding
• 5:37
  its
• 5:37
  spam
• 5:38
  policies
• 5:38
  to
• 5:38
  explicitly
• 5:39
  target
• 5:39
  "back
• 5:40
  button
• 5:40
  hijacking"
• 5:40
  —
• 5:41
  where
• 5:41
  sites
• 5:42
  insert
• 5:42
  deceptive
• 5:42
  pages
• 5:43
  into
• 5:43
  browser
• 5:43
  history
• 5:44
  to
• 5:44
  trap
• 5:44
  users.
• 5:45
  Enforcement
• 5:46
  begins
• 5:46
  June
• 5:46
  15,
• 5:47
  2026,
• 5:48
  with
• 5:49
  affected
• 5:49
  pages
• 5:49
  subject
• 5:50
  to
• 5:50
  manual
• 5:50
  actions
• 5:51
  or
• 5:51
  automated
• 5:52
  demotions.
• 5:53
  Google
• 5:53
  notes
• 5:54
  that
• 5:54
  some
• 5:54
  hijacking
• 5:55
  originates
• 5:55
  from
• 5:55
  included
• 5:56
  libraries
• 5:56
  or
• 5:56
  advertising
• 5:57
  platforms
• 5:58
  rather
• 5:58
  than
• 5:58
  intentional
• 5:59
  site-owner
• 5:59
  behavior,
• 6:00
  and
• 6:00
  encourages
• 6:01
  thorough
• 6:01
  code
• 6:02
  review.
• 6:03
  And
• 6:03
  for
• 6:03
  those
• 6:04
  tired
• 6:04
  of
• 6:04
  entrusting
• 6:04
  passwords
• 6:05
  to
• 6:05
  third-party
• 6:06
  vaults,
• 6:06
  HIPPO
• 6:07
  proposes
• 6:07
  computing
• 6:08
  passwords
• 6:08
  on
• 6:08
  the
• 6:08
  fly
• 6:09
  from
• 6:09
  two
• 6:09
  secrets
• 6:09
  —
• 6:11
  one
• 6:11
  user-supplied
• 6:11
  master
• 6:12
  password
• 6:13
  and
• 6:13
  one
• 6:13
  server-side
• 6:14
  key
• 6:14
  —
• 6:15
  using
• 6:15
  an
• 6:15
  Oblivious
• 6:16
  Pseudorandom
• 6:16
  Function
• 6:16
  (OPRF)
• 6:17
  protocol.
• 6:18
  The
• 6:19
  server
• 6:19
  never
• 6:19
  sees
• 6:19
  the
• 6:20
  raw
• 6:20
  password;
• 6:21
  the
• 6:21
  client
• 6:21
  never
• 6:22
  sees
• 6:22
  the
• 6:22
  server's
• 6:22
  key.
• 6:23
  The
• 6:23
  result
• 6:24
  is
• 6:24
  a
• 6:24
  deterministic,
• 6:25
  site-specific,
• 6:26
  high-entropy
• 6:27
  password
• 6:28
  with
• 6:28
  no
• 6:28
  vault
• 6:28
  to
• 6:29
  compromise.
• 6:30
  The
• 6:30
  obvious
• 6:31
  weakness
• 6:31
  is
• 6:31
  a
• 6:31
  single
• 6:32
  point
• 6:32
  of
• 6:32
  failure
• 6:32
  at
• 6:33
  the
• 6:33
  HIPPO
• 6:33
  service,
• 6:34
  and
• 6:34
  it
• 6:34
  does
• 6:34
  not
• 6:34
  handle
• 6:35
  password
• 6:35
  rotation
• 6:36
  or
• 6:36
  2FA.
• 6:37
  Commenters
• 6:38
  quickly
• 6:38
  pointed
• 6:38
  out
• 6:38
  that
• 6:39
  Hugo
• 6:39
  Krawczyk's
• 6:39
  SPHINX
• 6:40
  protocol
• 6:40
  (the
• 6:40
  likely
• 6:41
  theoretical
• 6:41
  basis,
• 6:42
  given
• 6:43
  a
• 6:43
  shared
• 6:43
  co-author)
• 6:43
  has
• 6:43
  been
• 6:44
  in
• 6:44
  production
• 6:44
  for
• 6:44
  nearly
• 6:45
  a
• 6:45
  decade
• 6:45
  and
• 6:46
  already
• 6:46
  solves
• 6:46
  the
• 6:46
  single-point-of-failure
• 6:47
  via
• 6:48
  threshold-OPRF.
• 6:53
  The
• 6:53
  identity
• 6:53
  problem
• 6:54
  for
• 6:54
  AI
• 6:54
  agents
• 6:55
  just
• 6:55
  got
• 6:55
  its
• 6:55
  second
• 6:55
  IETF
• 6:56
  draft
• 6:56
  in
• 6:56
  as
• 6:56
  many
• 6:57
  months.
• 6:58
  Dick
• 6:58
  Hardt
• 6:58
  (of
• 6:58
  Hellō)
• 6:59
  published
• 6:59
  draft-hardt-aauth-protocol-01,
• 7:01
  defining
• 7:01
  four
• 7:02
  resource
• 7:02
  access
• 7:02
  modes
• 7:03
  for
• 7:03
  agent-to-resource
• 7:04
  authorization:
• 7:05
  identity-based,
• 7:06
  resource-managed
• 7:07
  (two-party),
• 7:07
  PS-managed
• 7:08
  (three-party),
• 7:09
  and
• 7:09
  federated
• 7:10
  (four-party),
• 7:10
  with
• 7:10
  agent
• 7:11
  governance
• 7:11
  as
• 7:11
  an
• 7:11
  orthogonal
• 7:12
  layer.
• 7:13
  The
• 7:13
  protocol
• 7:13
  builds
• 7:14
  on
• 7:14
  HTTP
• 7:14
  Signature
• 7:15
  Keys
• 7:15
  and
• 7:15
  introduces
• 7:16
  concepts
• 7:16
  like
• 7:17
  "Person
• 7:17
  Servers"
• 7:18
  that
• 7:18
  mediate
• 7:18
  between
• 7:19
  agents
• 7:19
  and
• 7:19
  resources,
• 7:20
  "Missions"
• 7:21
  that
• 7:21
  scope
• 7:21
  agent
• 7:22
  actions
• 7:22
  with
• 7:22
  approval
• 7:23
  workflows,
• 7:23
  and
• 7:24
  "Clarification
• 7:24
  Chat"
• 7:24
  flows
• 7:25
  where
• 7:25
  a
• 7:25
  resource
• 7:26
  can
• 7:26
  ask
• 7:26
  an
• 7:26
  agent
• 7:27
  for
• 7:27
  more
• 7:27
  context
• 7:27
  before
• 7:28
  granting
• 7:28
  access.
• 7:29
  It
• 7:29
  also
• 7:29
  handles
• 7:30
  multi-hop
• 7:30
  resource
• 7:31
  access
• 7:31
  —
• 7:32
  critical
• 7:32
  for
• 7:33
  agents
• 7:33
  that
• 7:33
  chain
• 7:33
  tool
• 7:33
  calls
• 7:34
  across
• 7:34
  trust
• 7:34
  boundaries.
• 7:36
  This
• 7:36
  is
• 7:36
  a
• 7:36
  different
• 7:36
  and
• 7:36
  more
• 7:36
  ambitious
• 7:37
  draft
• 7:37
  than
• 7:37
  the
• 7:38
  draft-klrc-aiagent-auth-00
• 7:40
  covered
• 7:40
  previously,
• 7:41
  which
• 7:41
  proposed
• 7:41
  treating
• 7:42
  agents
• 7:42
  as
• 7:42
  workloads
• 7:43
  under
• 7:43
  the
• 7:43
  existing
• 7:43
  WIMSE
• 7:44
  architecture.
• 7:45
  Where
• 7:45
  that
• 7:45
  draft
• 7:46
  composed
• 7:46
  existing
• 7:46
  OAuth
• 7:47
  2.0
• 7:48
  and
• 7:48
  transaction
• 7:48
  token
• 7:48
  primitives,
• 7:49
  AAuth
• 7:50
  introduces
• 7:50
  new
• 7:50
  protocol
• 7:51
  machinery
• 7:51
  —
• 7:52
  Person
• 7:52
  Servers,
• 7:53
  Mission
• 7:53
  lifecycles,
• 7:54
  agent
• 7:54
  tokens
• 7:55
  with
• 7:55
  explicit
• 7:55
  governance
• 7:56
  —
• 7:56
  designed
• 7:57
  specifically
• 7:57
  for
• 7:57
  the
• 7:58
  agent
• 7:58
  use
• 7:58
  case
• 7:59
  rather
• 7:59
  than
• 7:59
  adapted
• 7:59
  from
• 8:00
  human
• 8:00
  authentication
• 8:00
  flows.
• 8:01
  Whether
• 8:02
  the
• 8:02
  IETF
• 8:02
  community
• 8:03
  consolidates
• 8:03
  around
• 8:04
  one
• 8:04
  approach
• 8:04
  or
• 8:04
  fragments
• 8:05
  remains
• 8:05
  to
• 8:06
  be
• 8:06
  seen,
• 8:06
  but
• 8:06
  the
• 8:07
  fact
• 8:07
  that
• 8:07
  two
• 8:07
  independent
• 8:08
  teams
• 8:08
  are
• 8:08
  racing
• 8:08
  to
• 8:09
  standardize
• 8:09
  agent
• 8:09
  identity
• 8:10
  signals
• 8:10
  how
• 8:11
  urgent
• 8:11
  the
• 8:11
  problem
• 8:11
  has
• 8:11
  become.
• 8:12
  The
• 8:13
  urgency
• 8:13
  is
• 8:13
  practical.
• 8:14
  A
• 8:15
  video
• 8:15
  essay
• 8:15
  by
• 8:15
  a
• 8:15
  former
• 8:16
  Google
• 8:16
  engineer
• 8:16
  lays
• 8:17
  out
• 8:17
  the
• 8:17
  case
• 8:17
  that
• 8:17
  the
• 8:17
  entire
• 8:18
  web
• 8:18
  is
• 8:18
  built
• 8:18
  around
• 8:19
  human
• 8:19
  affordances
• 8:19
  —
• 8:20
  pagination,
• 8:21
  authentication
• 8:22
  flows,
• 8:22
  startup
• 8:23
  sequences,
• 8:23
  rate
• 8:24
  limits
• 8:24
  —
• 8:25
  and
• 8:25
  agents
• 8:25
  are
• 8:25
  increasingly
• 8:26
  bottlenecked
• 8:26
  by
• 8:27
  exactly
• 8:27
  these
• 8:27
  affordances.
• 8:28
  Jeff
• 8:29
  Dean
• 8:29
  noted
• 8:29
  at
• 8:29
  GTC
• 8:30
  that
• 8:30
  making
• 8:30
  a
• 8:30
  model
• 8:31
  infinitely
• 8:31
  fast
• 8:32
  would
• 8:32
  yield
• 8:32
  only
• 8:32
  a
• 8:32
  2–3x
• 8:34
  productivity
• 8:34
  improvement,
• 8:35
  because
• 8:36
  the
• 8:36
  remaining
• 8:36
  47-fold
• 8:37
  speedup
• 8:37
  gets
• 8:37
  absorbed
• 8:38
  by
• 8:38
  human-speed
• 8:39
  tool
• 8:39
  infrastructure:
• 8:40
  compilers,
• 8:41
  file
• 8:41
  systems,
• 8:42
  APIs,
• 8:42
  CRMs,
• 8:43
  ERPs.
• 8:44
  The
• 8:44
  essay
• 8:45
  identifies
• 8:45
  three
• 8:45
  layers
• 8:46
  of
• 8:46
  rebuild:
• 8:47
  making
• 8:47
  existing
• 8:48
  tools
• 8:48
  faster
• 8:48
  (TypeScript
• 8:49
  7
• 8:49
  rewritten
• 8:50
  in
• 8:50
  Go,
• 8:50
  Rust
• 8:50
  toolchains),
• 8:51
  replacing
• 8:52
  tool
• 8:52
  abstractions
• 8:53
  with
• 8:53
  agent-native
• 8:54
  primitives
• 8:54
  (persistent
• 8:55
  containers,
• 8:55
  copy-on-write
• 8:56
  filesystems,
• 8:57
  shared
• 8:57
  KV
• 8:58
  caches),
• 8:58
  and
• 8:59
  ultimately
• 8:59
  replacing
• 9:00
  human
• 9:00
  scaffolding
• 9:00
  entirely.
• 9:02
  On
• 9:02
  the
• 9:02
  agent
• 9:02
  security
• 9:03
  side,
• 9:03
  Prompt
• 9:04
  Security's
• 9:04
  open-source
• 9:05
  ClawSec
• 9:05
  project
• 9:06
  shipped
• 9:06
  a
• 9:06
  new
• 9:07
  skill
• 9:07
  for
• 9:07
  Hermes
• 9:07
  agents
• 9:08
  —
• 9:09
  hermes-attestation-guardian
• 9:09
  —
• 9:11
  that
• 9:11
  provides
• 9:12
  deterministic
• 9:12
  attestation
• 9:13
  with
• 9:13
  canonical
• 9:14
  digest
• 9:14
  binding,
• 9:15
  fail-closed
• 9:16
  verification,
• 9:16
  and
• 9:17
  authenticated
• 9:17
  baseline
• 9:18
  drift
• 9:18
  analysis.
• 9:19
  The
• 9:19
  design
• 9:20
  is
• 9:20
  narrow
• 9:20
  and
• 9:20
  intentional:
• 9:21
  it
• 9:22
  targets
• 9:22
  Hermes
• 9:22
  infrastructure
• 9:23
  posture
• 9:23
  only,
• 9:24
  does
• 9:24
  not
• 9:25
  attempt
• 9:25
  runtime
• 9:25
  defense,
• 9:26
  and
• 9:26
  requires
• 9:27
  proven
• 9:27
  baseline
• 9:28
  trust
• 9:28
  before
• 9:29
  any
• 9:29
  drift
• 9:29
  comparison
• 9:30
  is
• 9:30
  treated
• 9:30
  as
• 9:30
  meaningful.
• 9:32
  The
• 9:32
  philosophy
• 9:32
  —
• 9:33
  "security
• 9:33
  controls
• 9:34
  should
• 9:34
  be
• 9:34
  verifiable,
• 9:35
  reproducible,
• 9:36
  and
• 9:36
  practical
• 9:37
  enough
• 9:37
  that
• 9:37
  operators
• 9:38
  actually
• 9:38
  keep
• 9:38
  them
• 9:39
  on"
• 9:39
  —
• 9:40
  echoes
• 9:40
  the
• 9:40
  Semgrep
• 9:40
  argument
• 9:41
  about
• 9:41
  reducing
• 9:41
  friction.
• 9:43
  A
• 9:43
  GitHub
• 9:43
  Gist
• 9:43
  showcases
• 9:44
  what
• 9:44
  agent-driven
• 9:45
  quality
• 9:45
  engineering
• 9:46
  looks
• 9:46
  like
• 9:46
  in
• 9:46
  practice:
• 9:47
  a
• 9:47
  six-agent
• 9:48
  hierarchical
• 9:49
  swarm
• 9:49
  analyzed
• 9:49
  170
• 9:50
  source
• 9:51
  files
• 9:51
  and
• 9:51
  31,819
• 9:53
  lines
• 9:54
  of
• 9:54
  code
• 9:54
  across
• 9:55
  the
• 9:55
  D.U.H.
• 9:55
  universal
• 9:56
  harness,
• 9:57
  producing
• 9:57
  findings
• 9:58
  across
• 9:58
  code
• 9:58
  quality,
• 9:59
  security,
• 10:00
  performance,
• 10:01
  and
• 10:01
  test
• 10:01
  coverage.
• 10:02
  Among
• 10:02
  the
• 10:03
  critical
• 10:03
  findings:
• 10:04
  no
• 10:04
  symlink
• 10:04
  resolution
• 10:05
  in
• 10:05
  file
• 10:05
  operations
• 10:06
  (path
• 10:06
  traversal),
• 10:07
  WebFetch
• 10:08
  SSRF
• 10:08
  with
• 10:08
  no
• 10:09
  internal
• 10:09
  network
• 10:09
  filtering,
• 10:10
  JWT
• 10:11
  decoded
• 10:11
  without
• 10:11
  signature
• 10:12
  verification,
• 10:13
  and
• 10:13
  a
• 10:13
  quadratic
• 10:14
  token
• 10:14
  re-estimation
• 10:15
  bug
• 10:15
  scaling
• 10:15
  O(NM)
• 10:16
  on
• 10:16
  every
• 10:16
  conversation
• 10:17
  turn.
• 10:18
  The
• 10:18
  analysis
• 10:18
  also
• 10:18
  identified
• 10:19
  295
• 10:20
  new
• 10:20
  test
• 10:20
  ideas
• 10:21
  across
• 10:21
  seven
• 10:22
  dimensions.
• 10:28
  A
• 10:28
  1.7
• 10:29
  billion
• 10:29
  parameter
• 10:29
  model
• 10:30
  weighing
• 10:30
  290
• 10:31
  megabytes
• 10:31
  is
• 10:31
  now
• 10:32
  running
• 10:32
  inference
• 10:32
  in
• 10:32
  a
• 10:32
  browser
• 10:33
  tab
• 10:33
  via
• 10:33
  WebGPU.
• 10:34
  Bonsai
• 10:34
  is
• 10:35
  a
• 10:35
  1-bit
• 10:35
  quantization-aware
• 10:36
  distillation
• 10:36
  experiment
• 10:37
  —
• 10:37
  weights
• 10:37
  constrained
• 10:38
  to
• 10:38
  ternary
• 10:38
  values
• 10:38
  during
• 10:39
  training,
• 10:39
  not
• 10:40
  just
• 10:40
  compressed
• 10:40
  afterward.
• 10:41
  The
• 10:41
  community
• 10:41
  reaction
• 10:42
  is
• 10:42
  a
• 10:42
  mix
• 10:42
  of
• 10:42
  awe
• 10:43
  at
• 10:43
  the
• 10:43
  engineering
• 10:44
  ("two
• 10:44
  years
• 10:44
  ago
• 10:44
  we
• 10:44
  were
• 10:44
  arguing
• 10:45
  whether
• 10:45
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• 10:45
  could
• 10:46
  run
• 10:46
  on
• 10:46
  consumer
• 10:46
  GPUs,
• 10:47
  now
• 10:47
  we're
• 10:47
  doing
• 10:48
  it
• 10:48
  in
• 10:48
  a
• 10:48
  tab")
• 10:48
  and
• 10:48
  honest
• 10:49
  assessment
• 10:49
  that
• 10:49
  the
• 10:49
  8B
• 10:50
  version
• 10:50
  hallucinates
• 10:50
  heavily
• 10:51
  and
• 10:51
  is
• 10:51
  "unusable
• 10:52
  for
• 10:52
  any
• 10:52
  task
• 10:52
  I
• 10:52
  can
• 10:52
  think
• 10:52
  of."
• 10:53
  The
• 10:54
  real
• 10:54
  question
• 10:54
  is
• 10:54
  whether
• 10:54
  purpose-built
• 10:55
  1-bit
• 10:55
  models
• 10:56
  trained
• 10:56
  from
• 10:56
  scratch
• 10:57
  (rather
• 10:57
  than
• 10:57
  distilled)
• 10:58
  can
• 10:58
  close
• 10:58
  the
• 10:58
  quality
• 10:58
  gap
• 10:58
  —
• 10:59
  and
• 11:00
  whether
• 11:00
  optimized
• 11:00
  CPU
• 11:01
  kernels
• 11:01
  (a
• 11:01
  finished
• 11:01
  llama.cpp
• 11:03
  PR
• 11:03
  for
• 11:03
  optimized
• 11:03
  1-bit
• 11:04
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• 11:04
  inference
• 11:05
  just
• 11:05
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• 11:05
  can
• 11:05
  push
• 11:06
  throughput
• 11:06
  to
• 11:06
  practical
• 11:06
  levels.
• 11:07
  At
• 11:07
  the
• 11:07
  other
• 11:08
  end
• 11:08
  of
• 11:08
  the
• 11:08
  hardware
• 11:08
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• 11:09
  tinygrad's
• 11:10
  new
• 11:10
  drivers
• 11:10
  allowing
• 11:10
  NVIDIA
• 11:11
  and
• 11:11
  AMD
• 11:12
  eGPUs
• 11:12
  on
• 11:13
  macOS
• 11:13
  are
• 11:13
  prompting
• 11:13
  some
• 11:14
  creative
• 11:14
  system
• 11:14
  design.
• 11:15
  One
• 11:15
  user
• 11:16
  is
• 11:16
  planning
• 11:16
  to
• 11:16
  combine
• 11:17
  an
• 11:17
  RTX
• 11:17
  5090's
• 11:18
  raw
• 11:18
  compute
• 11:19
  with
• 11:19
  a
• 11:19
  Mac
• 11:19
  Studio's
• 11:19
  unified
• 11:20
  memory
• 11:20
  —
• 11:21
  using
• 11:21
  the
• 11:21
  GPU
• 11:22
  for
• 11:22
  prefill
• 11:22
  and
• 11:22
  the
• 11:22
  Apple
• 11:23
  Silicon
• 11:23
  for
• 11:23
  decode.
• 11:24
  Another
• 11:24
  commenter
• 11:25
  reports
• 11:25
  already
• 11:26
  having
• 11:26
  a
• 11:26
  working
• 11:26
  llama.cpp
• 11:28
  build
• 11:28
  doing
• 11:28
  exactly
• 11:29
  this
• 11:29
  across
• 11:29
  separate
• 11:30
  machines:
• 11:31
  450
• 11:31
  tokens/second
• 11:32
  prefill
• 11:33
  on
• 11:33
  a
• 11:33
  5090
• 11:34
  for
• 11:34
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• 11:34
  Q4,
• 11:35
  then
• 11:35
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• 11:36
  off
• 11:36
  to
• 11:36
  a
• 11:36
  Mac
• 11:36
  Studio
• 11:36
  for
• 11:37
  generation.
• 11:38
  The
• 11:38
  bottleneck
• 11:38
  is
• 11:39
  PCIe
• 11:39
  bandwidth
• 11:39
  —
• 11:40
  at
• 11:40
  x4
• 11:41
  PCIe4
• 11:42
  through
• 11:42
  a
• 11:42
  Thunderbolt
• 11:42
  enclosure,
• 11:43
  streaming
• 11:43
  full
• 11:44
  model
• 11:44
  weights
• 11:44
  takes
• 11:44
  minutes
• 11:45
  for
• 11:45
  large
• 11:45
  models.
• 11:46
  The
• 11:46
  practical
• 11:47
  takeaway:
• 11:48
  separate
• 11:48
  machines
• 11:49
  with
• 11:49
  enough
• 11:49
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• 11:49
  to
• 11:49
  saturate
• 11:50
  a
• 11:50
  full
• 11:50
  x16
• 11:50
  link
• 11:51
  beat
• 11:51
  eGPU
• 11:51
  adapters
• 11:52
  for
• 11:52
  big
• 11:52
  models,
• 11:53
  but
• 11:53
  the
• 11:53
  driver
• 11:53
  itself
• 11:54
  is
• 11:54
  the
• 11:54
  foundation
• 11:54
  for
• 11:55
  future
• 11:55
  integration.
• 11:56
  The
• 11:56
  privacy-conscious
• 11:57
  local
• 11:57
  AI
• 11:57
  crowd
• 11:58
  also
• 11:58
  has
• 11:58
  a
• 11:58
  new
• 11:58
  option:
• 11:59
  claude-private,
• 12:00
  a
• 12:00
  patched
• 12:01
  build
• 12:01
  of
• 12:01
  Claude
• 12:01
  Code
• 12:01
  CLI
• 12:02
  v2.1.88
• 12:04
  with
• 12:05
  all
• 12:05
  17+
• 12:05
  telemetry
• 12:06
  mechanisms
• 12:06
  removed.
• 12:07
  The
• 12:07
  project
• 12:08
  catalogs
• 12:08
  the
• 12:08
  stock
• 12:09
  CLI's
• 12:09
  phone-home
• 12:10
  behavior
• 12:10
  in
• 12:10
  uncomfortable
• 12:11
  detail
• 12:11
  —
• 12:11
  Datadog
• 12:12
  event
• 12:12
  logging
• 12:12
  every
• 12:13
  15
• 12:13
  seconds,
• 12:14
  BigQuery
• 12:14
  metrics
• 12:15
  export
• 12:15
  every
• 12:15
  5
• 12:16
  minutes,
• 12:16
  session
• 12:17
  transcript
• 12:17
  ingress
• 12:17
  during
• 12:18
  conversations,
• 12:19
  MCP
• 12:19
  registry
• 12:19
  prefetch
• 12:20
  on
• 12:20
  startup,
• 12:21
  and
• 12:21
  more.
• 12:22
  The
• 12:22
  patch
• 12:22
  uses
• 12:23
  binary-level
• 12:23
  URL
• 12:24
  replacement
• 12:24
  (same-length
• 12:25
  dummy
• 12:25
  strings
• 12:26
  to
• 12:26
  preserve
• 12:26
  executable
• 12:27
  structure)
• 12:27
  plus
• 12:27
  environment
• 12:28
  overrides
• 12:29
  and
• 12:29
  source-level
• 12:29
  patches
• 12:30
  across
• 12:30
  19
• 12:31
  files.
• 12:32
  Core
• 12:32
  functionality
• 12:32
  —
• 12:33
  conversations,
• 12:34
  tools,
• 12:35
  file
• 12:35
  editing,
• 12:36
  bash,
• 12:36
  MCP
• 12:37
  —
• 12:37
  is
• 12:38
  unaffected.
• 12:39
  The
• 12:39
  project
• 12:40
  notes
• 12:40
  that
• 12:40
  Claude
• 12:40
  Code's
• 12:40
  source
• 12:41
  was
• 12:41
  exposed
• 12:42
  via
• 12:42
  npm
• 12:42
  registry
• 12:43
  source
• 12:43
  maps
• 12:43
  on
• 12:43
  March
• 12:44
  31,
• 12:44
  2026.
• 12:50
  Stanford's
• 12:51
  ninth
• 12:51
  AI
• 12:52
  Index
• 12:52
  report
• 12:52
  lands
• 12:53
  with
• 12:53
  a
• 12:53
  data
• 12:53
  point
• 12:54
  that
• 12:54
  captures
• 12:54
  the
• 12:54
  current
• 12:54
  moment:
• 12:55
  generative
• 12:56
  AI
• 12:56
  reached
• 12:57
  53%
• 12:57
  population-level
• 12:58
  adoption
• 12:59
  within
• 12:59
  three
• 12:59
  years
• 12:59
  —
• 13:00
  faster
• 13:01
  than
• 13:01
  the
• 13:01
  personal
• 13:01
  computer
• 13:02
  or
• 13:02
  the
• 13:02
  internet.
• 13:03
  But
• 13:03
  the
• 13:03
  report's
• 13:03
  real
• 13:04
  weight
• 13:04
  is
• 13:04
  in
• 13:04
  the
• 13:04
  uncomfortable
• 13:05
  juxtapositions.
• 13:06
  SWE-bench
• 13:07
  Verified
• 13:07
  performance
• 13:08
  rose
• 13:08
  from
• 13:08
  60%
• 13:09
  to
• 13:09
  near
• 13:09
  100%
• 13:10
  of
• 13:10
  meeting
• 13:11
  the
• 13:11
  human
• 13:11
  baseline
• 13:11
  in
• 13:11
  a
• 13:11
  single
• 13:12
  year,
• 13:12
  yet
• 13:13
  documented
• 13:13
  AI
• 13:13
  incidents
• 13:14
  rose
• 13:14
  to
• 13:14
  362
• 13:15
  (up
• 13:16
  from
• 13:16
  233
• 13:17
  in
• 13:17
  2024).
• 13:18
  Organizational
• 13:19
  adoption
• 13:19
  hit
• 13:19
  88%,
• 13:21
  yet
• 13:21
  almost
• 13:21
  no
• 13:21
  leading
• 13:22
  model
• 13:22
  developer
• 13:22
  reports
• 13:23
  results
• 13:23
  on
• 13:23
  responsible
• 13:24
  AI
• 13:24
  benchmarks.
• 13:25
  The
• 13:25
  U.S.-China
• 13:26
  model
• 13:26
  performance
• 13:26
  gap
• 13:26
  has
• 13:27
  effectively
• 13:27
  closed
• 13:27
  —
• 13:28
  Anthropic
• 13:28
  leads
• 13:29
  by
• 13:29
  just
• 13:29
  2.7%
• 13:29
  —
• 13:30
  while
• 13:31
  the
• 13:31
  number
• 13:31
  of
• 13:31
  AI
• 13:31
  researchers
• 13:32
  moving
• 13:32
  to
• 13:32
  the
• 13:32
  U.S.
• 13:32
  dropped
• 13:33
  89%
• 13:33
  since
• 13:34
  2017,
• 13:35
  with
• 13:35
  an
• 13:35
  80%
• 13:36
  decline
• 13:36
  in
• 13:36
  the
• 13:36
  last
• 13:37
  year
• 13:37
  alone.
• 13:38
  The
• 13:38
  labor
• 13:38
  market
• 13:38
  data
• 13:39
  deserves
• 13:39
  particular
• 13:39
  attention.
• 13:40
  The
• 13:40
  report
• 13:41
  finds
• 13:41
  productivity
• 13:42
  gains
• 13:42
  of
• 13:42
  14–26%
• 13:44
  in
• 13:44
  customer
• 13:45
  support
• 13:45
  and
• 13:45
  software
• 13:45
  development,
• 13:46
  with
• 13:46
  weaker
• 13:47
  or
• 13:47
  negative
• 13:47
  effects
• 13:47
  in
• 13:48
  tasks
• 13:48
  requiring
• 13:49
  more
• 13:49
  judgment.
• 13:50
  But
• 13:50
  in
• 13:50
  software
• 13:50
  development
• 13:51
  specifically
• 13:51
  —
• 13:52
  where
• 13:52
  AI's
• 13:53
  measured
• 13:53
  productivity
• 13:53
  gains
• 13:54
  are
• 13:54
  clearest
• 13:54
  —
• 13:55
  U.S.
• 13:55
  developers
• 13:56
  aged
• 13:56
  22–25
• 13:58
  saw
• 13:58
  employment
• 13:58
  fall
• 13:59
  nearly
• 13:59
  20%
• 13:59
  from
• 13:59
  2024,
• 14:00
  even
• 14:01
  as
• 14:01
  headcount
• 14:01
  for
• 14:01
  older
• 14:02
  developers
• 14:02
  continued
• 14:02
  to
• 14:02
  grow.
• 14:04
  This
• 14:04
  K-shaped
• 14:05
  pattern
• 14:05
  tracks
• 14:05
  closely
• 14:06
  with
• 14:06
  what
• 14:06
  we
• 14:06
  have
• 14:06
  tracked
• 14:07
  in
• 14:07
  prior
• 14:07
  analysis:
• 14:08
  AI
• 14:09
  acts
• 14:09
  as
• 14:09
  a
• 14:09
  seniority-biased
• 14:10
  technological
• 14:11
  change,
• 14:11
  amplifying
• 14:12
  experienced
• 14:12
  engineers
• 14:13
  while
• 14:13
  displacing
• 14:14
  juniors.
• 14:15
  The
• 14:15
  environmental
• 14:16
  data
• 14:16
  is
• 14:16
  equally
• 14:17
  sobering:
• 14:18
  Grok
• 14:18
  4's
• 14:18
  estimated
• 14:19
  training
• 14:19
  emissions
• 14:20
  reached
• 14:20
  72,816
• 14:22
  tons
• 14:22
  of
• 14:22
  CO2
• 14:23
  equivalent,
• 14:23
  AI
• 14:24
  data
• 14:24
  center
• 14:24
  power
• 14:25
  capacity
• 14:25
  rose
• 14:25
  to
• 14:25
  29.6
• 14:26
  GW
• 14:27
  (comparable
• 14:28
  to
• 14:28
  New
• 14:28
  York
• 14:28
  state
• 14:29
  at
• 14:29
  peak
• 14:29
  demand),
• 14:30
  and
• 14:30
  annual
• 14:30
  GPT-4o
• 14:31
  inference
• 14:31
  water
• 14:32
  use
• 14:32
  alone
• 14:32
  may
• 14:32
  exceed
• 14:33
  the
• 14:33
  drinking
• 14:33
  water
• 14:33
  needs
• 14:33
  of
• 14:34
  12
• 14:34
  million
• 14:34
  people.
• 14:35
  Steve
• 14:36
  Yegge's
• 14:36
  observations
• 14:36
  from
• 14:37
  inside
• 14:37
  Google
• 14:37
  add
• 14:37
  texture
• 14:38
  to
• 14:38
  the
• 14:38
  adoption
• 14:38
  picture.
• 14:39
  His
• 14:39
  source
• 14:40
  —
• 14:40
  a
• 14:40
  20-year
• 14:41
  Google
• 14:41
  tech
• 14:41
  director
• 14:42
  —
• 14:43
  reports
• 14:43
  that
• 14:43
  Google's
• 14:43
  internal
• 14:44
  AI
• 14:44
  adoption
• 14:45
  footprint
• 14:45
  is
• 14:45
  roughly
• 14:46
  equivalent
• 14:46
  to
• 14:46
  John
• 14:46
  Deere's:
• 14:47
  20%
• 14:48
  agentic
• 14:48
  power
• 14:49
  users,
• 14:50
  20%
• 14:50
  outright
• 14:51
  refusers,
• 14:52
  60%
• 14:52
  still
• 14:52
  using
• 14:53
  basic
• 14:53
  chat
• 14:53
  tools.
• 14:55
  The
• 14:55
  diagnosis:
• 14:56
  an
• 14:56
  18-month
• 14:57
  industry-wide
• 14:57
  hiring
• 14:58
  freeze
• 14:58
  means
• 14:58
  nobody
• 14:59
  is
• 14:59
  moving
• 14:59
  companies,
• 15:00
  so
• 15:00
  nobody
• 15:00
  knows
• 15:00
  where
• 15:00
  they
• 15:01
  stand
• 15:01
  on
• 15:01
  the
• 15:01
  adoption
• 15:01
  curve.
• 15:02
  Google
• 15:03
  specifically
• 15:03
  cannot
• 15:04
  use
• 15:04
  Claude
• 15:04
  Code
• 15:04
  because
• 15:05
  it
• 15:05
  is
• 15:05
  "the
• 15:05
  enemy,"
• 15:06
  and
• 15:06
  Gemini
• 15:06
  has
• 15:07
  never
• 15:07
  been
• 15:07
  good
• 15:07
  enough
• 15:07
  to
• 15:08
  capture
• 15:08
  agentic
• 15:08
  workflows.
• 15:09
  Some
• 15:10
  companies
• 15:10
  at
• 15:10
  the
• 15:10
  bottom
• 15:11
  have
• 15:11
  near-zero
• 15:11
  AI
• 15:12
  adoption
• 15:12
  and
• 15:12
  cannot
• 15:13
  even
• 15:13
  get
• 15:13
  budget.
• 15:14
  Others
• 15:14
  are
• 15:14
  cancelling
• 15:15
  IntelliJ
• 15:15
  licenses
• 15:16
  for
• 15:16
  a
• 15:16
  thousand
• 15:16
  engineers
• 15:17
  —
• 15:17
  an
• 15:18
  "incredibly
• 15:18
  bold
• 15:19
  move"
• 15:19
  toward
• 15:19
  full
• 15:19
  agentic
• 15:20
  adoption.
• 15:21
  Jonathan
• 15:21
  McGuinness
• 15:22
  offers
• 15:22
  the
• 15:22
  emotional
• 15:23
  counterpoint
• 15:23
  to
• 15:23
  these
• 15:24
  structural
• 15:24
  shifts.
• 15:25
  His
• 15:25
  essay
• 15:26
  on
• 15:26
  the
• 15:26
  "AI
• 15:26
  resentment
• 15:27
  stage"
• 15:27
  describes
• 15:28
  the
• 15:28
  moment
• 15:28
  AI
• 15:29
  produced
• 15:29
  in
• 15:29
  ten
• 15:29
  minutes
• 15:30
  what
• 15:30
  used
• 15:30
  to
• 15:30
  take
• 15:30
  him
• 15:30
  a
• 15:31
  week,
• 15:31
  and
• 15:31
  his
• 15:31
  first
• 15:32
  reaction
• 15:32
  was
• 15:32
  not
• 15:32
  admiration
• 15:33
  but
• 15:33
  deflation
• 15:33
  —
• 15:34
  "a
• 15:34
  kind
• 15:35
  of
• 15:35
  grief"
• 15:35
  for
• 15:35
  a
• 15:36
  professional
• 15:36
  identity
• 15:36
  built
• 15:37
  around
• 15:37
  being
• 15:37
  smart.
• 15:38
  His
• 15:38
  prescription:
• 15:40
  sit
• 15:40
  with
• 15:40
  the
• 15:40
  discomfort
• 15:41
  rather
• 15:41
  than
• 15:41
  rushing
• 15:41
  to
• 15:41
  reframe
• 15:42
  it.
• 15:43
  "My
• 15:43
  job
• 15:43
  didn't
• 15:43
  shrink.
• 15:45
  It
• 15:45
  clarified.
• 15:46
  I'm
• 15:46
  not
• 15:46
  the
• 15:47
  one
• 15:47
  doing
• 15:47
  the
• 15:47
  processing
• 15:48
  anymore.
• 15:48
  I'm
• 15:49
  the
• 15:49
  one
• 15:49
  who
• 15:49
  knows
• 15:49
  what
• 15:49
  matters."
• 15:54
  A
• 15:54
  Sorbonne
• 15:55
  research
• 15:55
  team
• 15:55
  published
• 15:56
  a
• 15:56
  paper
• 15:56
  on
• 15:56
  AI-enabled
• 15:57
  detection
• 15:57
  of
• 15:57
  covert
• 15:58
  channels
• 15:58
  in
• 15:58
  RF
• 15:59
  receiver
• 15:59
  architectures
• 15:59
  —
• 16:00
  a
• 16:00
  genuinely
• 16:01
  novel
• 16:01
  intersection
• 16:02
  of
• 16:02
  AI
• 16:02
  security
• 16:03
  and
• 16:03
  hardware
• 16:03
  signals
• 16:03
  processing.
• 16:05
  Covert
• 16:05
  channels
• 16:05
  in
• 16:05
  wireless
• 16:06
  chips
• 16:06
  allow
• 16:06
  exfiltration
• 16:07
  of
• 16:07
  sensitive
• 16:07
  data
• 16:08
  (encryption
• 16:08
  keys,
• 16:09
  AI
• 16:09
  models,
• 16:10
  configuration
• 16:10
  states)
• 16:11
  through
• 16:11
  Hardware
• 16:11
  Trojans
• 16:11
  embedded
• 16:12
  in
• 16:12
  RF
• 16:12
  transmitters.
• 16:13
  The
• 16:13
  team's
• 16:14
  approach:
• 16:14
  compact
• 16:15
  a
• 16:15
  CNN
• 16:16
  to
• 16:16
  80%
• 16:16
  fewer
• 16:16
  parameters,
• 16:17
  train
• 16:18
  it
• 16:18
  to
• 16:18
  detect
• 16:18
  covert
• 16:19
  channels
• 16:19
  directly
• 16:19
  from
• 16:20
  raw
• 16:20
  I/Q
• 16:20
  samples,
• 16:21
  and
• 16:21
  deploy
• 16:22
  it
• 16:22
  on
• 16:22
  an
• 16:22
  FPGA
• 16:23
  achieving
• 16:23
  107
• 16:25
  GOPs/W
• 16:26
  efficiency.
• 16:27
  At
• 16:28
  practical
• 16:28
  SNR
• 16:28
  levels
• 16:29
  above
• 16:29
  20
• 16:29
  dB,
• 16:30
  the
• 16:30
  model
• 16:30
  achieves
• 16:31
  over
• 16:31
  97%
• 16:32
  accuracy
• 16:33
  for
• 16:33
  both
• 16:33
  CC
• 16:33
  detection
• 16:34
  and
• 16:34
  identifying
• 16:35
  the
• 16:35
  underlying
• 16:35
  Hardware
• 16:36
  Trojan
• 16:36
  technique.
• 16:37
  The
• 16:37
  paper
• 16:37
  benchmarks
• 16:38
  four
• 16:38
  prominent
• 16:38
  HT-CC
• 16:39
  attack
• 16:40
  types
• 16:40
  and
• 16:40
  demonstrates
• 16:41
  the
• 16:41
  first
• 16:41
  dedicated
• 16:42
  AI
• 16:42
  hardware
• 16:42
  accelerator
• 16:43
  specifically
• 16:43
  for
• 16:43
  covert
• 16:44
  channel
• 16:44
  detection.
• 16:45
  In
• 16:45
  a
• 16:45
  different
• 16:45
  kind
• 16:46
  of
• 16:46
  hardware
• 16:46
  integration,
• 16:47
  a
• 16:47
  developer
• 16:48
  has
• 16:48
  been
• 16:48
  connecting
• 16:48
  Claude
• 16:48
  Code
• 16:49
  to
• 16:49
  oscilloscopes
• 16:49
  and
• 16:50
  SPICE
• 16:50
  simulators
• 16:50
  via
• 16:51
  MCP
• 16:51
  servers,
• 16:52
  creating
• 16:52
  a
• 16:52
  feedback
• 16:53
  loop
• 16:53
  where
• 16:53
  the
• 16:53
  AI
• 16:53
  can
• 16:53
  design
• 16:54
  a
• 16:54
  circuit,
• 16:54
  simulate
• 16:55
  it,
• 16:55
  measure
• 16:55
  the
• 16:56
  physical
• 16:56
  output,
• 16:56
  and
• 16:57
  iterate.
• 16:57
  The
• 16:57
  workflow
• 16:58
  scales
• 16:58
  beyond
• 16:58
  trivial
• 16:59
  circuits:
• 16:59
  the
• 16:59
  key
• 17:00
  insight
• 17:00
  is
• 17:00
  that
• 17:00
  Claude
• 17:00
  Code
• 17:01
  excels
• 17:01
  when
• 17:01
  it
• 17:01
  gets
• 17:01
  immediate
• 17:02
  feedback,
• 17:03
  and
• 17:03
  connecting
• 17:03
  it
• 17:03
  to
• 17:03
  real
• 17:03
  measurement
• 17:04
  equipment
• 17:04
  provides
• 17:04
  exactly
• 17:05
  that.
• 17:05
  The
• 17:06
  setup
• 17:06
  includes
• 17:06
  MCP
• 17:07
  servers
• 17:07
  for
• 17:07
  LeCroy
• 17:07
  oscilloscopes
• 17:08
  and
• 17:08
  spicelib,
• 17:09
  with
• 17:09
  practical
• 17:10
  tips:
• 17:10
  give
• 17:11
  Claude
• 17:11
  explicit
• 17:11
  pinout
• 17:12
  maps,
• 17:12
  never
• 17:12
  let
• 17:12
  it
• 17:13
  guess
• 17:13
  physical
• 17:13
  connections,
• 17:14
  use
• 17:14
  Makefiles
• 17:15
  to
• 17:15
  expose
• 17:15
  standardized
• 17:16
  build/flash/ping
• 17:17
  commands
• 17:18
  rather
• 17:18
  than
• 17:18
  having
• 17:18
  the
• 17:18
  agent
• 17:19
  construct
• 17:19
  them
• 17:19
  on
• 17:19
  the
• 17:19
  fly.
• 17:20
  For
• 17:20
  those
• 17:20
  wanting
• 17:21
  to
• 17:21
  build
• 17:21
  ML
• 17:21
  intuition
• 17:22
  from
• 17:22
  the
• 17:22
  ground
• 17:22
  up,
• 17:23
  Pyre
• 17:23
  Code
• 17:23
  offers
• 17:24
  68
• 17:24
  problems
• 17:24
  covering
• 17:25
  the
• 17:25
  internals
• 17:25
  of
• 17:25
  Transformers,
• 17:26
  vLLM,
• 17:27
  TRL,
• 17:27
  and
• 17:27
  diffusion
• 17:28
  models.
• 17:29
  No
• 17:29
  GPU
• 17:29
  required
• 17:30
  —
• 17:31
  you
• 17:31
  implement
• 17:31
  attention
• 17:31
  variants,
• 17:32
  training
• 17:33
  tricks,
• 17:33
  inference
• 17:34
  kernels,
• 17:34
  and
• 17:34
  alignment
• 17:35
  algorithms
• 17:35
  against
• 17:36
  a
• 17:36
  local
• 17:36
  test
• 17:36
  suite.
• 17:37
  The
• 17:37
  problems
• 17:38
  range
• 17:38
  from
• 17:38
  fundamentals
• 17:39
  (ReLU,
• 17:39
  Softmax)
• 17:40
  through
• 17:40
  attention
• 17:41
  mechanisms
• 17:41
  (GQA,
• 17:42
  Flash
• 17:42
  Attention,
• 17:43
  MLA)
• 17:44
  to
• 17:44
  alignment
• 17:44
  (DPO,
• 17:45
  GRPO,
• 17:46
  PPO)
• 17:46
  and
• 17:46
  frontier
• 17:47
  architectures
• 17:47
  (MoE,
• 17:48
  Mamba
• 17:48
  SSM,
• 17:49
  Multi-Token
• 17:50
  Prediction).
• 17:51
  It
• 17:51
  runs
• 17:52
  entirely
• 17:52
  locally
• 17:53
  via
• 17:53
  a
• 17:53
  FastAPI
• 17:53
  grading
• 17:54
  service
• 17:54
  and
• 17:54
  Next.js
• 17:55
  frontend.
• 17:57
  Daniel
• 17:57
  Miessler's
• 17:58
  video
• 17:58
  essay
• 17:58
  makes
• 17:59
  the
• 17:59
  case
• 17:59
  that
• 17:59
  all
• 17:59
  the
• 17:59
  agent
• 18:00
  and
• 18:00
  harness
• 18:00
  infrastructure
• 18:01
  being
• 18:01
  built
• 18:01
  today
• 18:02
  is
• 18:02
  converging
• 18:02
  on
• 18:03
  a
• 18:03
  single
• 18:03
  endpoint:
• 18:04
  a
• 18:04
  named,
• 18:04
  persistent
• 18:05
  digital
• 18:05
  assistant
• 18:06
  (DA)
• 18:06
  that
• 18:06
  knows
• 18:07
  everything
• 18:07
  about
• 18:07
  you
• 18:07
  —
• 18:08
  your
• 18:08
  work,
• 18:09
  relationships,
• 18:10
  health,
• 18:10
  finances,
• 18:11
  goals
• 18:12
  —
• 18:12
  and
• 18:13
  uses
• 18:13
  an
• 18:13
  army
• 18:13
  of
• 18:13
  agents
• 18:14
  as
• 18:14
  its
• 18:14
  back-end
• 18:14
  execution
• 18:15
  layer.
• 18:16
  His
• 18:16
  system,
• 18:17
  "Pi,"
• 18:18
  currently
• 18:19
  has
• 18:19
  51
• 18:19
  public
• 18:19
  skills,
• 18:20
  43
• 18:21
  private
• 18:21
  skills,
• 18:22
  and
• 18:22
  418
• 18:23
  workflows,
• 18:24
  all
• 18:24
  oriented
• 18:25
  around
• 18:25
  moving
• 18:25
  him
• 18:25
  from
• 18:26
  "current
• 18:26
  state"
• 18:26
  to
• 18:26
  "ideal
• 18:27
  state."
• 18:28
  The
• 18:28
  argument
• 18:28
  is
• 18:29
  that
• 18:29
  what
• 18:29
  humans
• 18:29
  want
• 18:29
  from
• 18:30
  AI
• 18:30
  is
• 18:30
  predictable
• 18:31
  even
• 18:31
  if
• 18:31
  the
• 18:31
  technology
• 18:32
  is
• 18:32
  not:
• 18:33
  we
• 18:33
  want
• 18:33
  to
• 18:33
  feel
• 18:33
  seen,
• 18:34
  understood,
• 18:35
  and
• 18:35
  supported
• 18:35
  by
• 18:36
  a
• 18:36
  trusted
• 18:36
  entity
• 18:36
  that
• 18:36
  never
• 18:37
  gets
• 18:37
  tired.
• 18:38
  Whether
• 18:38
  this
• 18:38
  vision
• 18:39
  materializes
• 18:39
  through
• 18:40
  OpenAI's
• 18:40
  hardware
• 18:41
  play,
• 18:41
  Apple's
• 18:42
  ecosystem,
• 18:42
  or
• 18:43
  open-source
• 18:43
  harnesses,
• 18:44
  the
• 18:44
  direction
• 18:45
  is
• 18:45
  convergent.