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Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It

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25 Sep 2023

This is really important, and why we talk about "eating your own dogfood". If you don't use what you build, you can't build anything great.  #Technology

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AI vendors can't be trusted to secure their systems. Newsrooms need to act accordingly

There were two big lapses in the Hugging Face / OpenAI hacking story: the lack of security protections on OpenAI's end, and Hugging Face's vulnerable production database. That should worry anyone who uses AI with sensitive data.

23 Jul 2026

Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change.

1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.

23 Jul 2026

People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.

Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.

20 Jul 2026

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

20 Jul 2026
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