“Shields up. Red alert.” — Every Starfleet captain, at the exact moment they realize talking isn’t going to work In Part I, I laid out the threat model: the confused deputy evolved, the inside...

“The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules. It is a philosophy, and a very correct one. History has proved again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilizatio...

My grandfather Menachem was a Holocaust survivor. He barely talked about it. He was born Menachem Rot (רוט) in 1929 in Stanisławów, Poland — a city with about 25,000 Jews before the war, and fewer...

“I’ve spent the last year trying to find a way to communicate with Voyager. Everyone said it couldn’t be done. They said the distance was too great, the technology didn’t exist. But I knew if I ...

“If you want AI agents to act like team members, you have to treat them like team members — including giving them the right access controls, onboarding them with least privilege, and holding t...

“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is fu...

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci (probably didn’t mean git worktrees, but still) When Brady Gaster created Squad, he built it around a principle I really like...

“Agents can’t look at a screen. They need programmatic access to system state. Aspire MCP gives them exactly that.” — me, after watching five agents simultaneously query different aspects of t...

The Story I’ve been running Squad — a multi-agent AI framework — for a couple of weeks now. It orchestrates a team of AI agents that handle code review, architecture decisions, infrastructure, do...

“Irrelevant. I am a drone. Drones do not have feelings.” “Then how do you know you’re not curious?” — Data and Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager (fan fiction, but you get the idea) Knowledge...