Thoughts on AI, privacy, and the intersection of both.
The End of Junior Engineering
Arlo Gilbert · June 30, 2026
Anthropic just said it doesn't hire junior engineers anymore. The real story isn't replacement, it's the apprenticeship ladder a frontier AI lab quietly just removed a rung from, and what that means for the senior-engineer market in 2030.
Architecting the Multi-Inference Gateway: Routing in the Age of $50/M Token Models
Arlo Gilbert · June 11, 2026
Fable 5 is the best model I've ever used and the most expensive. If your application still talks directly to one model API, your bill is about to teach you a lesson.
The AI Rebellion Already Happened
Arlo Gilbert · May 19, 2026
The American rebellion against AI has happened before. What matters is which past rebellion this one actually resembles.
AI Coding Got Boring
Arlo Gilbert · April 29, 2026
End-to-end agentic coding pipelines work really well. They also took away all of the joy of building, and the historical record explains why.
Forty-to-One
Arlo Gilbert · April 21, 2026
Non-human identities outnumber human ones in the average enterprise by that ratio. Ninety-two percent of security teams can't see them.
The Model Didn't Change
Arlo Gilbert · April 16, 2026
Anthropic released Opus 4.7 this morning. The story behind it is about what happened to 4.6, and why you couldn't tell.
Four Protocols and No Consent
Arlo Gilbert · April 16, 2026
Visa launched a platform that lets AI agents buy things on your behalf. The payment infrastructure is ready. The consent model isn't.
The Second Software Crisis
Arlo Gilbert · April 13, 2026
AI coding tools made us 40% faster at generating code. They also broke the only process we had for making sure it works.
The Law That Followed the Kids
Arlo Gilbert · April 10, 2026
COPPA was written in 1998 for a different internet. On April 22, it becomes the first U.S. regulation to draw a bright line on AI training with children's data.
Who's Open Now?
Arlo Gilbert · April 9, 2026
Meta and Google just traded places on AI openness. The business logic explains both moves.
OpenAI Wants a Robot Tax
Arlo Gilbert · April 8, 2026
On Monday, OpenAI published a 13-page policy paper proposing to tax AI companies, fund a national wealth fund, and shorten the workweek. Its IPO is months away.
The Bot Will See You Now
Arlo Gilbert · April 7, 2026
Utah approved an AI chatbot to renew psychiatric prescriptions without a doctor. It charges $19 a month.