AI is genuinely good at the mechanical half of analysis and unreliable at the half that matters. Here's where the line sits, and the four skills that let analysts move faster without shipping a confident wrong number.
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Four separate 2026 agent failures passed review before anyone caught them, because every review checked the final answer instead of the actions that produced it. Here's the layer that actually catches problems, and a twenty-minute way to check it this week.
4 min readAI now produces more output, in more formats, and faster than one person can read start to finish. Four signals from the past six weeks show exactly where that habit breaks — and the checking habit that replaces it without slowing you down.
4 min readAnthropic interpretability researcher Emmanuel Ameisen told Lenny Rachitsky that AI models are grown, not built, and plan several steps ahead using reasoning that isn't human-like. Here's what that means for the next confident answer an AI gives you.
4 min readSam Altman and Demis Hassabis both said AI security is an unsolved problem days apart. Here's the three-point audit to run on your team before the next cheap hack finds the gap.
3 min readFive AI vendors made five different calls on your data this year — scraping, toggle resets, and a disconnect that didn't delete anything. One check catches all of it.
5 min readOpenAI published 722 AI-generated papers that nobody individually requested, and most went unchecked before they went public. The usual advice — decide what 'correct' looks like before you generate — assumes you're the one who asked. Here's what to do when the output already exists before you see it.
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