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Agents don't need better prompts. They need better permissions

Mar 2026

March's agent launches made the shift obvious: once an LLM can read Jira, browse links, and open pull requests, the real engineering problem is no longer prompt wording. It's blast radius.

Mar 2026 - 9 min read - Read Article

How preference tuning ruined a perfectly good punctuation mark

Mar 2026

A step-by-step trace through the training pipeline that turns a punctuation mark into a writing tic. Tokenisers, reward models, and the labellers who accidentally taught GPT to love polish.

Mar 2026 - 11 min read - Read Article

Relying on AI without losing yourself

Mar 2026

AI outages reveal how much thinking we've outsourced - and why resilience means using the speed without losing the skill.

Mar 2026 - 9 min read - Read Article

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