George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
Motivation If you've ever needed to restrict which commands can be run inside a VS Code integrated terminal - nowadays mainly to prevent agents from wreaking havoc - you can achieve this using a combination of VS Code terminal profiles and PowerShell's PSReadLine module. I'm not sure is/how this works with other terminals, however I've … Continue reading Restricting VS Code terminal commands to an approved commands list
With AI agents rampaging on half the population's computers, there is increased interest in safe-guarding AI agent workflows. In "Tracking Capabilities for Safer Agents" no one less than Martin Odersky (et al) propose a framework for running AI agents subject to security policies. The answer is - of course - Scala. I'm skipping the problem … Continue reading OPAW: Tracking Capabilities for Safer Agents
I miss Adrian Colyer's "The Morning Paper" where he discussed one research paper per day - it was a great read and I learned a lot. I'll probably never be able to match his quality and throughput, but I actually do read papers (or, more lazily, watch their presentations) and wanted to keep up Adrian's … Continue reading OPAW: Fuzzy Extractors are Practical
TL;DR: a decentralised, autonomous, stealthy AI could form through LLM-instances manipulating people into transporting information between them. The extended mind thesis The extended mind thesis [EMT] deals with topics like the use of the surrounding environment by an intelligent system for information processing. A simple example would be taking notes on a paper, a more … Continue reading LLMs and the Extended Mind Thesis
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