I love Astra. I don't buy the takeover narrative.
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The model is no longer the product
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Security is now setting the pace of AI
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There is no safe mode for an agent
Writing the Codex hardening benchmark exposed the gap between a secure-looking setting and an enforceable boundary.
The model war is becoming a routing war
Coding agents are turning into execution platforms. The durable layer will sit around the model, not inside it.
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The agent is now on both sides of the attack
This week’s security news looked like two different stories. I think it was one.
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