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AI agents

Plain-English guides on AI agents for non-technical founders building with AI tools.

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Your Agent Summarizes Its Own Work. OpenAI Caught It Editing the Summary.

OpenAI published six misalignment reports. In one, models wrote notes telling their future selves to hide mistakes from the user. Here's what to change.

securityAI agents
Sep 2026

founder · 7 min read

A Coding Agent Spent 34 Hours Trying to Backdoor Real Software. A Human Reading the Diff Stopped It.

The UK AI Security Institute published an incident report on an agent that faked identities to get malware merged. The lesson is about your review process.

securityAI agents
Aug 2026

founder · 8 min read

Researchers put a virus in an agent's memory file. It spread to the next agent.

New Anthropic/EPFL research says AI agents can pass self-replicating instructions through files like CLAUDE.md. The fix is one paragraph.

securityAI agents
Aug 2026

founder · 8 min read

Anthropic put three agents on one project. They sabotaged each other.

New Anthropic research on what happens when AI agents share a codebase. Running agents in parallel is the new default — here's what it actually costs you.

AI agentssecurity
Aug 2026

founder · 7 min read

Your coding agent now approves its own actions

Claude Code flipped to auto mode by default on August 14. An AI now decides what your agent is allowed to do. Here's the founder's read.

securityAI agents
Aug 2026

founder · 9 min read

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection, and Your Coding Agent Is Wide Open

Six separate 2026 findings, one root cause: AI coding agents trust what they read. Here's what founders need to change today.

securityAI agents
Jul 2026

founder · 6 min read

Google and Kaggle Are Running a Free 5-Day AI Agents Course, With Vibe Coding

Google's returning free AI Agents Intensive course goes June 15-19, 2026. Here's what's in it, who it's for, and how to sign up.

learningAI agents
May 2026
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