Development posts

Last time, we covered AI risks inside and against your organization, and how to reduce them. In this post, we’ll touch on some specific risks and mitigations for using coding agents. Coding agents are a specific case of “AI in your organization,” so …

Introduction # Large language models, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) are impossible to escape in today’s tech climate. At Latacora, we take a thoughtful and pragmatic approach towards new technologies like these. Are they going to …

Default shells usually end in $. Unless you’re root and it’s #. That tradition has been around forever: people recognized the need to highlight you’re not just some random shmoe. These days we have lots of snazzy shell magic. You might still su, but …

We’re less interested in empowering developers and a lot more pessimistic about the prospects of getting this stuff right. There are, in the literature and in the most sophisticated modern systems, “better” answers for many of these items. If you’re …