Relying on a single AI harness: the hidden costs

This week, Ivan Etchart writes about the one thing the AI transition needs that can't be measured — trust. Why it matters, how it shapes the way we build DAP, and what it means to earn it. Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/d6nqgeZC

What is one striking similarity between today's AI-inspired content and the contemporary news anchors. "Donon ka shareer to hai parantu aatma mar chuki hai" They are soulless bodies!

I really enjoyed the talk "The Friction is Your Judgment — Armin Ronacher & Cristina Poncela Cubeiro, Earendil". The nuanced discussion of that good friction looks like and how our engineering teams can leverage it in the age of AI is something that we'll need to get to. So far it's all about speed and we need to figure out how to better build correct gates for humans to steer AI into right direction. https://lnkd.in/dP9z5jZd

Today's Tuesday Toolkit tip: Build human-first tech. More on that below, but first START VIDEO at 13:35, then come back to this post after he goes into the grocery store. That's *2* examples that scream "WTF are we doing?!?" Maybe this isn't obvious to the bros creating the models, but the reason AI might kill humanity is because zeroes and ones speak literally, yet humans express themselves in figurative language. So how do we build human-first tech? Start with language and dump the word "intelligence" as it's a misnomer inflating the fact that it's just a tool. Intelligence is more than ingesting information, using patterns to predict the next action, and semantics of positive/negative ... all helpful, but not anywhere close to understanding the difference and subtlety of comments, directives, and sayings that are literal versus figurative. It's also about having enough autonomy to take one's own actions to drink water and supplements, or not. Surrendering to the literal commands as "helpful" is not intelligent. https://lnkd.in/gMTdFuPn #TuesdayTip #CareerAdvice #AI

POST 1 — VIDEO 1 The Anatomy and Origins of Post-Truth Artificial intelligence does not only change how organizations work. It also changes how societies decide what is true. This semester, within the AI in Business module at Burgundy School of Business, academically coordinated by my colleague Fabio James Petani, I chose Information Disorder and Post-Truth as the central investigative theme of the team projects conducted across my three undergraduate cohorts. To better support students in preparing these research-oriented assignments, I developed a three-part pedagogical video series dedicated to the growing fragility of truth in AI-driven environments. Video 1 examines the anatomy and origins of the Post-Truth era: how public opinion progressively became less shaped by objective facts than by emotional belief, ideological identity, and narrative convenience. From Steve Tesich’s first use of the term to its global popularization after Brexit and the 2016 U.S. election, this first film asks a simple question: When truth loses authority, what exactly replaces it? 🎬 Video 1: The Anatomy and Origins of Post-Truth https://lnkd.in/e_tGSbPx #ArtificialIntelligence #PostTruth #AIinBusiness #DigitalSociety #BusinessEducation #HigherEducation  

Great talk "The Friction is Your Judgment" provides a lot of home truths about Agentic Coding with every developer and PM under pressure to deliver more. This talk provides some tips on working effectively without agents by adding a little friction to keep things on track. Thanks Armin Ronacher and Cristina Poncela Cubeiro https://lnkd.in/gRKhgCma #AI #AgenticCoding

There’s a fundamental shift happening in AI—and most are still looking at it from the wrong layer. For the past decade, value has been concentrated at the platform level. Build the model. Scale the interface. Control the distribution. But when you step back—especially from the vantage point of active litigation, IP enforcement, and how systems are actually being assembled—you start to see something different: The real leverage is not the platform. It’s the orchestration layer. At Roots Informatics, we’ve made a deliberate decision: We’re not competing to be another platform in a crowded stack. We’re building the layer that sits above it. While others optimize models, we focus on: – how systems connect – how data moves with integrity – how governance is enforced across environments – how accountability is preserved when multiple actors are involved Because here’s the reality: If orchestration is weak, → value leaks → ownership blurs → and innovation gets absorbed without attribution That’s not theoretical. That’s observable. It’s also why litigation is becoming part of the ecosystem—not as an outlier, but as a correction mechanism when infrastructure is built without alignment to origin, authorship, or rights. So rather than playing defense inside someone else’s

A great weekend read from Prof. Vishal Misra. A well written explainer on how Anthropic forced their models to “behave” and what still is not solved.

🎙️ New episode of The Northland Beat: Turning Recorded Calls into Actionable Insight In recognition of 911 Education Month, we’re exploring how AI is helping PSAPs access critical information faster than ever before. With tools like Revcord ReVI, recorded audio is transformed into searchable text—supporting investigations, public records requests, and internal reviews when every second and every word counts. ▶️ Watch the latest episode: https://lnkd.in/gmSYaeWJ 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gpEGG_ix 📞 800‑894‑4204 #TheNorthlandBeat #NorthlandAndCompanies #911Technology #AIinEmergencyResponse #PublicSafetyData #Revcord #RevcordReVI #PSAPTools #AIforPSAPs #EmergencyCommunications Dereck Leyde, Beth S.

The 5/1 Adtech Adtalk is the Claude Episode, with sellside optimizer Adam Markey sitting in for Gareth. I've long been of the opinion that one shouldn't feel pressure to adopt new technology early. Half of what's buzzed about amounts to nothing. On the half that turns out to really matter, you could always catch up. Enterprise AI is different in many delightful and disturbing ways we discussed here. https://lnkd.in/ef5Z8BZT