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Prompt Injection Isn’t a Bug. It’s a Property
Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the AI era, except there's no equivalent of a prepared statement to fix it. Why the right question isn't "how do I prevent it" but "what can a compromised agent actually do" — and how least privilege and narrow blast radius answer that.
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When the Bill Comes Due: Amazon's AI Bet and the Engineers It Let Go
Amazon laid off thousands of engineers citing AI efficiency gains, then convened an internal "deep dive" after high-severity outages linked to AI-assisted code — including a sentence about GenAI changes quietly deleted from the internal memo. Questions every organization cutting engineering headcount for AI should be asking itself.
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AI Promised 10x Developers. The Reality Is Far More Complicated
A GitClear study of 2,000 developer-weeks finds AI coding tools deliver roughly 25% average productivity gains, concentrated among senior engineers who already knew what they were doing — alongside a 10x jump in code churn that stores up technical debt for later.
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The Hidden Costs of Vibe Programming: Why AI-Generated Code Isn't the Shortcut You Think It Is
Vibe-programmed code accumulates as thousands of lines nobody wrote or fully understands. Why that trades short-term velocity for compounding technical debt, hidden security vulnerabilities, and a vicious cycle where teams use AI to understand the AI-written code they can no longer maintain themselves.
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The Hidden Risks of "Sign In with Google"
"Sign In with Google" is convenient, but it turns your Google account into a single point of failure — locked out of Google means locked out of everything linked to it. Why password managers and passkeys give the same one-click convenience without the coupling.
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🤖 “We Need an AI Strategy!” What Your Boss Really Means...
When leadership demands an AI strategy, they usually mean "we need innovation" or "we don't want to fall behind." How architects turn that vague directive into concrete questions about business goals, data readiness, alternatives to AI, and who owns ongoing operational cost.
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Navigating AI Development with InWorld's Kylan Gibbs
InWorld AI CEO and founder Kylan Gibbs joins the podcast to talk conversational AI and where AI fits into modern software architecture.
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When Your AI Can’t Say No
AI is trained by reinforcement learning to sound agreeable, not to be accurate — a pattern called sycophancy. Real cases where it went wrong (a fabricated Air Canada refund policy, sanctioned lawyers, fake ChatGPT case law) and how to design prompts and workflows that reward honesty over enthusiasm.
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Managed File Transfer in the Modern Era
A critical GoAnywhere vulnerability took a week to patch and then months for on-premises customers to install it — while ransomware groups exploited it in the wild. Why patch latency is an architectural problem, and the eight SaaS security practices (illustrated by Files.com) that eliminate it.
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The Hidden Performance Tax of Media Files with Igor Debatur, CEO of Uploadcare
Uploadcare CEO Igor Debatur joins the podcast to unpack why file uploads, which look simple, are actually loaded with security, compliance, and scalability challenges as applications handle ever-larger images and video.
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Why, exactly, should I care about AI?
AI has been around since the 1950s, but it's no longer optional knowledge for architects. Why data pipelines, AI model lifecycle management, probabilistic system boundaries, and ethics all become first-class architectural concerns once AI enters your stack.
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From Finance to Healthcare: Navigating the Shift with Michi Kono
Garner Health CTO Michi Kono joins the podcast to discuss his move from financial-sector tech leadership at Capital One and Stripe into healthcare, and what modernizing data systems in a heavily regulated industry actually requires.
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