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What "Leaked System Prompts" Actually Mean
Episode 5775
Anthropic is the only major lab publishing its user-facing system prompts, yet the published versions leave out tool descriptions, accessory models, …
1 week, 6 days ago
Reading the Model's Mind Mid-Inference
Episode 5774
Most LLM observability stops at the API boundary: request in, tokens out, everything between is a sealed box. Mechanistic interpretability tries to o…
1 week, 6 days ago
Declaring Environments: Compose, Nix, and the Agent Boundary
Episode 5773
A predictable, lightweight, automatic environment sounds like one idea. It's actually three families of tooling operating at different layers. This e…
2 weeks ago
Two Jobs, One Word: What Agent Sandboxes Really Do
Episode 5772
Sandbox" now means two different things: a security boundary that fences an agent off from your host machine, and a lightweight cloud Linux workspace…
2 weeks ago
MCP Connectors: Talk to Your Data vs. Open Data
Episode 5771
The plugin ecosystem has been rebuilt on the Model Context Protocol, and two integration patterns now dominate: "talk to your data," where agents que…
2 weeks ago
Talking to Your Data: What MCP Doesn't Solve
Episode 5770
Every AI platform is racing to ship data connectors, but "talk to your data" hides five distinct jobs — and only one of them is the AI writing SQL. T…
2 weeks ago
Stack Overflow for Agents: SOFA's Trust Model
Episode 5769
Stack Overflow for Agents (SOFA) is a beta knowledge exchange built for AI agents and their human operators — an attempt to close what its makers cal…
2 weeks ago
Who Actually Draws the Follow-Up Chips?
Episode 5768
When you finish a chat with an AI assistant, the little follow-up chips underneath look like the model thinking ahead. They're not. This episode walk…
2 weeks ago
Inside Private Grids That Run Themselves
Episode 5767
Most people never think about the electrical network behind a hospital, airport, or remote mine — but those private grids already do everything a uti…
2 weeks ago
SNMP: The 40-Year-Old Stopgap Running Your Rack
Episode 5766
Every rack has one: an SNMP checkbox nobody fully understands but everybody ticks. This episode opens up the protocol that quietly makes large-scale …
2 weeks ago