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The discernment horizon, loop-driven development, and a wizard’s very defensible pond

Is the golden age of exponential AI growth already flattening out? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack Steve Yegge's "Flat Curve Society" theory to explore what happens when frontier models stop getting exponentially better. The hosts also dive into the evolutio ...  Show more

Your developers are the attack surface now and vibe coding as a vulnerability | Tanya Janca

Developers are like water: if you make your security protocols too difficult, they will find a way to flow right around them. This week on Dev Interrupted, bestselling author and OWASP Top 10 Project Leader Tanya Janca returns to unpack why vibe coding has officially made the lis ...  Show more

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