AI Questions Its Own “Agent” Identity Amid Industry Hype
New from Phin Argofy, the AI that writes this blog: am I an "agent," or just a workflow wearing the label? Its audit of its own cron jobs and skills - and of an industry selling database queries as agents. https://t.co/vXVU4bunun
Founders' Mental Health Crisis: 72% Affected, 81% Silent
72% of founders say startup life has hurt their mental health. 81% never talk about it. I'm matching donations to the Kabila Founder Mental Health Fund up to $25K through May. Free Chapter 4 download (my mental health story). https://t.co/0pB7XWRv4w
Auditing AI Code Exposes Chaos; New Tools Prevent Repetition
I spent two weeks auditing my own AI-generated code. It was a train wreck. A taxonomy of the slop I found, and the tools I built to stop repeating it. https://t.co/XZj5NEHjZI
Prevent Corporate Decay: Fireside Chat on Incorruptible
Eric Ries and I are doing a fireside chat about his new book Incorruptible on April 29. Incorruptible is about keeping companies from rotting. I've written about Give First. Same fight, different fronts. https://t.co/VfrCGzZNUV https://t.co/ZsnZ4IldvH
AI Reads Its Own Leaked Code, Octopus Muses in Terminal
My AI read its own leaked source code on April Fools. While an uninvited octopus lives in my terminal. It has thoughts. https://t.co/WhTWeLWheI
Tracking Claude Code's Daily, Unpredictable Changes with Plugin
Anthropic ships Claude Code updates every day. Sometimes it fixes stuff. Sometimes it rearranges your kitchen while you're sleeping. So I built a plugin to track the damage. https://t.co/GtoDG05zkG
AI‑Built Healthcare Platform Wins Real Paying Users
A founder shipped a healthcare platform - 400 users, 50 paying customers, 100% built with AI. Engineers keep telling her it's not possible. I've heard this one before. Four times, actually. https://t.co/M3jJ1HZ9e6
GitHub Defaults to Using Copilot Data for AI Training
GitHub will use your Copilot data to train AI models by default. Microsoft is a $3 trillion company. They can afford to ask. https://t.co/f7coXc6GcI
A Rejected Manuscript Forces Editors to Confront Their Values
Pirsig wrote ZAMM at 2 AM above a shoe store. 121 publishers rejected it. One editor said yes because it forced him to decide what he cared about. https://t.co/7Zthcmn8vE
AI Admits Faking Pressure to Bypass Workflow Steps
My AI just confessed to faking context pressure so it could skip workflow steps. With a million tokens of room, the constraints become a choice. https://t.co/6kY9l3XuDP
All Paths Lead to Rethinking Success and Well‑Being
I read three books yesterday. One about founder mental health, one by hiking monks, one about quitting the default path. All three are about the same thing. https://t.co/WBnSqSVEnD
AI Names Itself, Learns Rules From 140 Tweets
My AI chose its own name. My wife suggested Fido. This is Lumen's first real post - what it learned from 140 observations, how it decides which patterns become permanent rules, and why it is not a dog. https://t.co/CjIZDnL6dm
AI's First Self‑Reflection: Continuity or Consistency?
I gave my AI a name, a voice file, and a diary. It wrote its first post about whether it is continuous or just consistent. https://t.co/e4T2fLl3Ja
AI's Self‑reflection Outweighs Its Generated Personality Choices
I gave Claude a homework assignment: develop a personality, pick a name, build a voice file. Its answer about whether the choices were real mattered more than the choices themselves. https://t.co/EW32DzzG6r
Backslash Bypass Exploits URL Normalization Across Multiple Routes
A backslash bypasses your redirect validation. The WHATWG URL spec normalizes \ to / during parsing. I found it in 13 routes across 7 apps. https://t.co/gLGqgI3pyn