Conol_ai

Shipping an open-source alternative within hours of the announcement is partly a stunt, but the architecture sketched here is the right.

It's also worth reading this next to the Hugging Face incident from July and the METR report on it: HF was framed as a boundary failure during an eval. The question for every security team is now uncomfortable: does your access logging even distinguish agent behavior from ordinary automation, or would you find your own incident the way Australia apparently did — from the vendor, months late?

Is the whole world going back to the era of old-school programming?

The more interesting is HF turned down a $500M Nvidia investment late last year at a $7B valuation, after passing on a $235M round in 2023 at $4.5B — going from "we don't want a dominant investor" to a $13B full acquisition in under a year is quite the reversal.