AIverse
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COBOL Was Never the Product. The Toll Booth Was.
Anthropic’s COBOL pitch is not about old code. It threatens the costly consulting bottleneck around banks, insurers, and government legacy systems.
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When Markets React to Perceived Disruption: Claude Code Security and the Cybersecurity Sector
Anthropic’s Claude Code Security announcement triggered a sharp drop in cybersecurity stocks, highlighting investor fears about AI-driven disruption.
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The Opaque Prompt Pipeline: Why “AI-Powered” Tools Make You Leak on Autopilot
Many “AI-powered” apps hide the model, costs, and retention—turning your text into an untracked data export. That’s not paranoia.
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Prompting’s Midlife Crisis: Turning Incantations into Infrastructure
Anthropic’s Skills shift prompting from clever phrasing to testable, trigger-based instruction packages—less mystique, more engineering.
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The Assistant Axis: when “helpful” is a place, not a promise
Anthropic finds a measurable “Assistant Axis” in LLMs. Capping drift along it reduces harmful persona shifts and jailbreaks—raising questions about human identity.