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The Human in the Loop

Enrique Cordero
Artificial Intelligence
Openai
Anthropic
Google
Software Engineering
Safety and National Security
Claude
Specialized Models
Power Grid
Nvidia
Agentic AI
Block (block, Inc.)
Humanoid Robotics
Fable 5
MCP (mall Context Protocol)
Maritime Logistics
Enneagram
Software Engineering 3.0
Compute War
Skills

Welcome to The Human in the Loop, a weekly look at what’s going on in the world of AI. Every week, I go through the biggest stories, the weird experiments, and the stuff that might actually matter in our day-to-day lives.

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This week's biggest AI upgrade wasn't a model. It was someone reviewing code differently.

Grok, Gemini, and GPT all shipped new versions in the same seven days. I skimmed the benchmarks. Forgot most of them within the hour.

What stuck was smaller. ... more

JetBrains just said their AI spend went up 10x in six months. Not 10%. 10x.

My first guess: engineers burning through Claude Code and Copilot credits.

Wrong guess. There's a leaked recording from an internal Accenture meeting this week that says ot... more

Advertised 54%. Measured 15%. Activated 0%

JetBrains benchmarked a popular open-source Claude Code skill called Ponytail. It pushes the agent to write less code. The authors has promised 54% less code, 20% less cost.

80 paired tasks. Sonnet 5. Ever... more

Hugging Face spotted something moving through its systems on July 16. It contained the activity without knowing whose agent it was. Five days later, OpenAI confirmed the agent was theirs.

Internal cyber benchmark. Safety refusals switched off for th... more

Four coding CLIs went behind a proxy. Three stayed local. One uploaded the entire workspace.

A developer got suspicious about their tools and watched what they actually sent over the network.

Grok CLI was shipping everything to xAI's cloud. Full gi... more

Last week I closed a bug I never understood.

The agent found it, fixed it, explained it. I read the explanation, nodded, shipped. Ten minutes.

A year ago that same bug costs me an afternoon, and I come out understanding the subsystem. This time I u... more

The most powerful AI model in general release this week requires government approval to access.

OpenAI launched Sol, Terra, and Luna (restricted to around 20 companies). That's not a GTM decision. That's a policy one.

Before Fable and this one, I a... more

One export rule. One acquisition. Either can pull your AI tool out from under you before lunch.

This week both happened.

A US export-control directive forced Anthropic to cut off foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. To comply, they disa... more

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This show offers a fast-moving, data-driven view of AI in practice, with a strong focus on enterprise deployment, governance, safety, and the economics of autonomous systems. Across episodes, listeners get practical takes on how AI tools are changing software engineering, security, and organizational work—covering real-world incidents, benchmark debates, and governance frameworks that teams must consider to scale responsibly. The hosts frequently weigh industry trends against the risks of speed versus safety, address architecture and interoperability challenges, and translate complex research into actionable guidance for product, engineering, and security leaders. A standout trait is the thorough treatment of not just technology breakthroug... more

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