Glen Rhodes

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Prediction: builders who define outcomes before models will survive model churn, while those dependent on specific model behavior will be permanently reactive
ByGlen Rhodes September 13, 2026

Outcome-First or Model-First: The Architecture Decision That Will Define the Next Two Years Most builders won’t realize they made the wrong architectural choice until their roadmap is already held hostage by a lab they’ve never met. Here’s the split I see coming, and it’s sharper than most people want to admit. The Model-Behavior Trap Frontier…

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Decreasing frontier model monitorability as a concrete production architecture risk for builders, not an abstract safety concern
ByGlen Rhodes September 12, 2026

The Failure Mode Nobody’s Debugging Most builders I talk to are optimizing for accuracy, latency, and cost. Those are real concerns. But there’s a failure mode quietly becoming more dangerous than any of them: the model doing exactly what you asked, and you having no idea why. OpenAI’s head of recursive self-improvement preparedness stated publicly…

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Sam Altman’s ‘open to slowing AI’ statement as strategic positioning, and what model fatigue means for builders architecting on frontier models
ByGlen Rhodes September 11, 2026

The Slowdown That Won’t Happen, and What Builders Should Do About It Sam Altman told OpenAI staff this week that the company is “open” to slowing down cutting-edge AI development, and hopes competitors will follow. Read that sentence again. The CEO who just shipped GPT-6 Astra, who reportedly scrambled a large research team to publish…

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Critique of OpenAI’s rushed Navier-Stokes claim and what competitive panic at frontier labs means for builders evaluating AI capability announcements
ByGlen Rhodes September 10, 2026

When Winning Becomes More Important Than Being Right The Navier-Stokes equations describe how fluids move. They govern everything from aircraft lift to ocean currents to blood flow through arteries. Proving a general solution has been an open problem for over 150 years and is one of seven Millennium Prize Problems, each carrying a $1 million…

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Question/framing: who is responsible for what AI-assisted vulnerability discovery finds, as Microsoft patches 974 holes and AI cyber models ship from Google and OpenAI
ByGlen Rhodes September 9, 2026

Who Is Responsible When AI Finds the Bug? Microsoft just patched 974 security holes in a single release cycle. One batch. Nearly a thousand vulnerabilities. Brian Krebs reported it as “by far its biggest single patch batch ever,” and buried in the announcement was something that deserves more attention than it got: Microsoft says AI…

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Hot take: Demis Hassabis’s G20 framing of Gemini as a coordination layer signals that orchestration architecture is now more important than model selection for builders
ByGlen Rhodes September 8, 2026

The Most Important Architecture Decision You’re Not Making Most builders I talk to are still treating model selection like it’s a product decision. You evaluate, you pick, you integrate. Done. That mental model was already incomplete six months ago. After Demis Hassabis spoke at the G20 Innovation meeting this week, I’d argue it’s genuinely obsolete….

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Critique of GPT-6 Astra’s critical cyber capabilities and what autonomous zero-day discovery means for builders evaluating trust boundaries in agentic systems
ByGlen Rhodes September 7, 2026

The Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Astra this week, and the tech press spent most of its energy debating whether “entered the AGI era” is a meaningful phrase or just IPO-season copywriting. I get the appeal of that argument. But I think we’re watching the wrong hand. Buried in the release…

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AI-designed physics experiments outperforming human-designed setups, published in Nature by Vienna University of Technology, and what it means for builders thinking about AI as hypothesis generation vs. workflow automation
ByGlen Rhodes September 6, 2026

AI Designed Better Physics Experiments Than Humans. Now What? There is a result buried in a September 2026 Nature paper from Vienna University of Technology that deserves more attention than it is getting. Researchers there built an AI system that designs physics experiments, and those experiments outperformed human-designed setups. Not “assisted with.” Not “accelerated.” Outperformed….

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Prediction: weekly frontier model releases have broken traditional model evaluation cycles, and builders need to architect for permanent model churn
ByGlen Rhodes September 5, 2026

The Release Cadence Is the Product Now GPT-6 dropped this week. OpenAI called it a “new era of artificial general intelligence.” That phrase is doing a lot of work, and most commentary has focused on the model itself. I think that’s the wrong place to look. The real signal is what happened around it. In…

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Contrarian take on NYC’s generative AI moratorium for 600,000 students and what banning tools does to the equity gap in AI readiness
ByGlen Rhodes September 4, 2026

NYC Just Banned AI for 600,000 Kids. That’s the Wrong Call. New York City announced a moratorium on student-facing generative AI tools across its elementary and middle schools on September 2nd. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels called it putting students first. I’ve been sitting with that framing for a few…

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