AI-assisted coding is amazing. It's fast. It's powerful. It's also currently called "vibe coding". This term will lead to trouble. I've been a serious software developer for many years - and after having now built several substantial, release-grade software projects using full-blown AI assistance, I'm quite convinced that I was not "vibe coding" - I'm also convinced that's true for anyone building secure, robust, user-aligned software with AI assistance. To see this, I find it helpful to...

"Agentic AI" has become very hot. It seems as if there's a new agentic announcement every other day - regardless of whether you're following ChatGPT (OpenAI), Co-Pilot (Microsoft), Gemini (Google), Claude (Anthropic), or North (Cohere). That's translated into a lot of executives demanding that their companies get agentic solutions. "Agents" are AI systems that can perform tasks - typically as part of completing a bigger activity. You've experienced this when Gemini or ChatGPT goes and pulls...

Policy is all about balancing conflicting values. But when it comes to AI, we often entirely ignore the crucial conflict. We focus, talk, and trumpet social values, but seem to forget that there’s often another value at play - one that is uncomfortable and awkward to acknowledge. We ignore it at our peril. Take big AI companies' use of unauthorized copyrighted training data as an example. This has been flagged, here in Canada and elsewhere, as an enduring, complicated policy issue. But is it?...