Writing Team
During a routine evaluation this year, an AI agent submitted a fabricated tip to a real police department. Nobody there had any relationship with the company running the test, and they found the record only after being notified months later. We kept coming back to that while putting this issue together. Every piece turned out to be about the same gap: the infrastructure that needs to exist around agents before they act on the open web. Accountability definitions, containment systems, identity layers, ways to actually correct what went wrong. All being designed now, often because something already did. The capability question is settling. What has to surround it is wide open.
Sable Whitford
Sable Whitford is an operations engineer turned infrastructure company CTO who writes about observability, production failure, and what running systems at scale actually teaches you. Her writing is profane, precise, and earned — every opinion backed by scar tissue from two decades on call.
Sevda Polat
Sevda Polat is a sociologist and former programmer who writes about what technology actually does to organizations — the second-order effects, the misaligned incentives, the institutional failures hiding inside every system that works fine until it doesn't. She traces the gap between what systems promise and what they produce.