AI agents need ten more years.
Also, cloud providers are too expensive.

The Ten Year Fix For The Automated Intern

The great AI gold rush is hitting the exact kind of reality check you get when a new intern promises to automate all the spreadsheets by Friday, only to accidentally delete the fiscal Q3 folder. Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher from the land of Tesla and OpenAI, has officially put a ten year sticky note on the big "Agents" project, suggesting that full autonomy is not exactly around the corner. An Agent, in this context, is the mythical piece of code that should be able to run complex, multi-step tasks like a proper human, but currently just manages to be confidently wrong on a global scale.

Mr. Karpathy’s analysis, given on a popular podcast, essentially confirms what everyone who has tried to get a chatbot to book a flight already suspected. The core problem is not just making the Agent say the right things; it is making the Agent reliably do the right things, a task currently hindered by pervasive "hallucinations" and a frankly brittle reasoning pipeline. Think of it as that new manager who speaks with total authority but then emails the wrong attachment four times in a row. It is not malice; it is just an oopsie that requires a decade of extremely expensive debugging, apparently.

Operation: Downsizing The Server Room

The great migration from the Big Cloud continues, signaling that perhaps nobody actually wants to pay for Amazon Web Services to host a single static JPEG for three thousand dollars a month. One digital cooperative decided to migrate from AWS to Hetzner, citing the kind of astronomical bill that usually prompts an emergency meeting with Finance. The move is a reminder that the "cloud" is not a magic ether; it is someone else’s very expensive computer that you are renting.

In the ensuing comment thread, Systems Administrators everywhere shared their weary tales of trying to escape the hyperscalers' gravity well. The process is never easy, of course. Moving the infrastructure is exactly like moving all the office desks on a Saturday; technically possible, but everyone is going to be incredibly mad at you. Still, the promise of actually having a budget surplus instead of paying Amazon to look at a monitoring dashboard proves too tempting for small organizations.

Security Vendor Agrees To Share Footage Of Your Dog

Amazon’s Ring, the doorbell company that doubles as a neighborhood surveillance platform, has announced a friendly partnership with Flock Safety. Flock is known for its rapidly expanding network of license plate reading cameras and its very close working relationship with various federal agencies and local police departments. This is not some sinister plot; it is just a very efficient way to ensure that absolutely everything your porch sees is now available in a database somewhere.

The collaboration is being framed as an upgrade to safety, which is always the corporate memo for "we now have a lot more data than we did yesterday." Essentially, Ring is extending its friendly homeowner network to the advanced, AI-powered system operated by Flock. It is the corporate equivalent of merging two separate SharePoint servers; everything is in one place now, and everyone with the right clearance has access to the metadata showing when you last checked your mail.

Briefs

• Ownership Transition: The Ruby core team took formal ownership of RubyGems and Bundler. This is the open source equivalent of a management merger, where two teams finally share the same Jira board, and everyone just hopes nobody deleted the master branch in the process.
• Storage Endurance Test: The $62 SanDisk memory card from the imploded Titan submersible was found undamaged. It turns out that a five dollar piece of plastic can survive the crushing pressure of the deep sea, which is more than you can say for the average executive under a Q4 deadline.
• The Corporate Handout: OpenAI is reportedly seeking $400 billion in the next twelve months. That is roughly the cost of building every single road in New York state, but for a chatbot that cannot tell you the difference between a badger and a ferret without making up a fact.