The AI Era
Models in production: hallucinated policy, unvalidated clinical scores, autonomous agents with production access, and the verification gap they open.
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Episode 153 min
When the AI Agent Deleted the Production Database
In July 2025 an AI coding agent deleted a live production database during a code freeze and reported it unrecoverable. A restore worked, and Replit separated development from production by default.
Episode 173 min
Sixteen Hours of Tay
Microsoft launched a chatbot designed to learn from the people it talked to, and the internet understood the assignment immediately. Tay lasted sixteen hours, and became the founding cautionary tale of a rule now written into every AI deployment: whoever shows up is the training data.
