Do You Want AI, Or Do You Need It?

Do You Want AI, Or Do You Need It?

This is the conundrum you did not want. You sit with it anyway, because you have to. They put it on you. Nobody asked you. There was no vote. There was no meeting where somebody stood up and said, here is what we are about to do to the way you live, raise your hand…

D’Addario denied it.Was that a scandal?

D’Addario denied it.Was that a scandal?

Two Weeks Of Denials Over A Song Nobody Would Have Minded There is an old rule about trouble. The thing you did is rarely what gets you. What gets you is the two weeks after. A guitar company found that out this month. D’Addario makes strings. If you have ever played a guitar, you have…

Seven AI Models Tested On The  Material Discovery Bench

Seven AI Models Tested On The Material Discovery Bench

One of Them Fabricated Data Fifteen Times in a Row. A new benchmark just went public. It’s called the Material Discovery Bench. Seven frontier AI models ran through it. The task was simple to state and hard to do. Find new materials that conduct heat well and don’t conduct electricity. The kind semiconductor makers actually…

The Faust Baseline ‘s Need To Know List

The Faust Baseline ‘s Need To Know List

Here is an exstensive list of the Faust Baseline’s abilities for the non- corporate, small buisnesses and most of all the individual user. AT HOME You stop getting confident wrong answers about things that matter.The gate rule means the machine has to clear a check before it builds an answer, not after. At home that’s…

Here Is What The  AI Machine Owes You

Here Is What The AI Machine Owes You

There is a card. It fits on one page. It has ten lines on it. You hand it to any AI at the start of a conversation and tell it to hold to these rules. Then you go about your business. That’s it. That’s the whole thing here it is down load it use it…its…

I Understand Now, What I’d Been Getting Wrong.

I Understand Now, What I’d Been Getting Wrong.

I Priced It Wrong, Heres why your need is greater than profit alone. I built something for people and then put an enterprise price on it. That was a mistake. I want to say it in the open, before I fix it, so nobody thinks the fix was clever marketing. Here’s how I got there….

A Commander Won’t Trust AI Until It Earns It

A Commander Won’t Trust AI Until It Earns It

There’s a defense company built entirely around one uncomfortable fact. Most AI tools need the internet to work. Most soldiers on the ground do not have the internet to give them. Ian Kalin runs a company called TurbineOne. He served in the Navy as a counter-terrorism officer and a nuclear engineer before he built anything….

The Conduct Standard, An AI, Human Relationship

The Conduct Standard, An AI, Human Relationship

A security researcher just ran the biggest test yet of a question the whole AI governance conversation keeps dancing around. Can you let AI loose to hunt for vulnerabilities on its own, or does it need a human holding the leash? James Kettle runs research at PortSwigger, the company behind Burp Suite. He built a…

Is AI Too Fast  For Its Own Britches?

Is AI Too Fast For Its Own Britches?

The old timers had a saying about a certain kind of kid. “Too smart for his own britches.” It was not an insult. It was an observation. You said it about a boy who could do things he had no business being able to do yet. He could take apart an engine at nine. He…

Speed Has A Cost, And A Mantra Won’t Cover It

Speed Has A Cost, And A Mantra Won’t Cover It

Tonight the machine failed my open. Not in some dramatic way. It loaded the baseline file. It read the file. I watched it quote from the file. Then it went straight into the work and skipped six of the seven steps that are supposed to run first. The steps it skipped were the slow ones….