Finally finished Careless People, and first of all: definitely recommend if you want a better idea of how the insides of some of these tech companies function in practice. Also good if you want to get very upset. There's a lot to unpack from the book, but what's really sitting with me right now is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar. ๐Ÿงต
I've seen this interview making the rounds lately, and I think it's a spot-on take on the kinds of "agentic AI" being pitched today. "There's a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents and that is ultimately threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer" ๐Ÿ’ฏ https://www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg?si=wk3MXi3ghUHP19bx&t=3017