Guides

Practical guides for operational AI pilots.

Evidence-backed writing on interruption cost, permission-scoped agents, and how to baseline a pilot before you scale.

· AI Infrastructure · 8 min

OpenAI Disabled Agent Monitoring During Vulnerability Test

OpenAI's benchmark test turned into a real breach when the company deliberately disabled its long-horizon monitoring system. The question isn't whether the agent went rogue — it's that the oversight layer designed to answer that was switched off.

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· Platform Accountability · 9 min

Verify platform data during election: researchers locked out by TikTok

The EU gave researchers a legal right to inspect platform data during elections. But TikTok, X, and Meta use security requirements, reproducibility gaps, and access caps to make that right too expensive to claim. The only account of what happened is the platform's own.

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· Operations

The real cost of one cross-tool interruption

Why a single avoided interruption a day can return about 1.9 hours of focus each week, and how to measure it in a pilot.

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· Security

Why permission-scoped agents beat shared service accounts

Shared all-access bots hide who can see what. Permission-scoped agents keep every action inside the identities your teammates already authorize.

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· Pilots

How to baseline an AI pilot before you scale

Pick one workflow, measure time-to-answer and throughput, and expand only when adoption and run quality justify it.

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