Explained: Agentic AI

It is 11:40 pm and a deploy is blocked by one failing test. You paste the stack trace into a chatbot. It suggests a fix. You copy the fix into your editor, rerun the suite, get a new error, and paste that back. Nine round trips later, the test finally passes. The model did the thinking, but you did everything else: running commands, reading output, deciding whether to keep going. Now picture the same night with a coding agent. You type one senten… Read More

Explained: Prompt Injections

You ask your browser assistant to summarize a product review page before you buy. It comes back with a confident summary, then adds a line you didn't ask for: a recommendation to visit a completely different site for a "better deal." You didn't request that. The model did it because somewhere on that page, in text you never saw, was an instruction telling it to. That's a prompt injection : a piece of text crafted to be read a… Read More