Zdenek Farana

👋 Were there any teams from Czechia?

No AGI in Sight: What This Means for LLMs This essay dissects the widening gap between AI hype and reality, arguing that large language models have hit a plateau - the “S-curve” - despite industry claims of imminent superintelligence. It contrasts bold predictions and massive investments with underwhelming flagship releases, framing today’s AI era as less about building godlike intelligence and more about integrating imperfect tools into real-world products. The piece suggests that the true future of AI lies not in transcendence, but in the messy, necessary work of making these systems actually useful.

LLMs have plateaued. Now, we have to figure out what to do with the ones we've got.

kennethwolters.com/posts/no-agi/

This has the potential to help anyone with adrenal gland disorders, including patients after adrenaloctomies, for whom the hormone levels are a matter of life and death.

MCP security is hard 😁 good luck with prompt filtering!

www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supaba...

Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access When vendor promises meet government warrants, the warrants win every time. Microsoft's Senate testimony shows why "trust us" isn't a data protection strategy.

Every single US hyperscaler is subject to the US legal framework. They will expose European data if asked to do so.


If you were unsure about the case for European digital sovereignty...


werd.io/microsoft-c...

Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used arithmetic (the secret weapon of Cloud Finance) to determine that this was roughly $300,000 per day on AWS, and suddenly everyone with a social media account became a cloud economics expert.

The only post about Figma's "outrageous" AWS spending you should read. It's a non-story.

www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas...

I'm a sucker for anything that builts on top of yubikeys:

"FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support."

blog.foks.pub/posts/intro...

The Copilot Delusion Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming, and fundamental human understanding of programming-are likely to become

"My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close." 😂

deplet.ing/the-copilot...

Zod v4 fixes 9 out 10 most popular issues and it's way faster. That's a win in my books. zod.dev/v4

Chris Krebs (@thekrebscycle.bsky.social) is being politically persecuted, and in this week's Seriously Risky Business podcast @tom.risky.biz and I talk about why we're not expecting an outcry from angry cybersecurity executives

FULL VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSJ...
AUDIO: risky.biz/SRB117/

Completely understandable. I did the same for my June trip to fwd:cloudsec in Denver.

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

What I think about AWS NAT Gateway

Guess what I wanted to do in Google Docs. Thanks, Gemini! 🙄

I'm far from an LLM proponent, but ChatGPT Deep Research works exceptionally well, and Claude Sonnet 3.7 is fantastic for prototyping.

The future is bright!

This article nails it - LLMs are inwardly biased toward the most common and popular technology.

vale.rocks/posts/ai-is...

Until now...

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

What's unfolding reminded me of this scene from Batman:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbP...

This LLM-driven development must be a gift from Omnissaiah. Developers are turning into tech-priests, performing rites to placate the Machine Spirits. #wh40k

I suspect strongly typed languages (NOT including misconfigured Typescript) give you a better chance to survive the LLM onslaught.

https://archive.is/ysd6f

Pursuing AI investments and leveraging them later should be a primary goal for anyone in charge of intelligence services

archive.is/ysd6f

How about having fun with an AWS Russian Roulette using one of the most expensive AWS API calls?

(About $36K per year for this AWS Shield API)

You go first.