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Your Security Scanner Is Reading Gemspecs Wrong
How dependency declaration syntax in Ruby gemspecs produces false positive vulnerability reports — and what to check before you panic. (Also check out my Ruby Gems Analyzer that covers the CVEs and Bundled/Default Gems in each Ruby version, as compiled directly from pristine installs of Ruby on clean images) If you run a Ruby application…
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The Subsidy Cliff Arrives: This Week Proved the Gold Rush Is Ending
A follow-up to The End of the AI Gold Rush In August 2025, I wrote that the AI industry’s $20-a-month illusion couldn’t last — that the math simply didn’t work, and that eventually someone would expect their profit out of this. I estimated that reaching actual cost recovery would require 10x to 50x price corrections.…
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Hallucination as a service – Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Medium)
LLMs are going to replace all employees by a few weeks ago, according to Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic about this time last year. And yet Claude can’t be accurate between the contents of two very simple sources that it provides. Here’s the dialogue in chat: Thomas: Is busybox missing on GHA runners for arm…
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The 2026 Pivot That Tells You The Party Is Over
Allbirds sold its shoe brand last month. This week it announced a pivot to AI compute infrastructure. The stock tripled on the press release. The new name is NewBird AI. If you have been working in or around the tech industry for more than one hype cycle, you have seen this before. Not something like…