Ethics
- The 49MB Web Page: Hostile Design as Correct Engineering
The New York Times homepage is 49MB and requires 422 network requests. The engineers who built it optimised correctly -- they hit their metrics. This is the most important engineering ethics lesson in the attention economy: when the proxy becomes the target, the proxy stops working and the product becomes adversarial.
- Corporate Ethics Meets State Power: The Anthropic/Pentagon Standoff and What It Means for Engineering Teams
When the Pentagon demanded Anthropic delete a clause protecting against mass surveillance, it triggered the first real test of whether corporate AI ethics policies can survive contact with sovereign power. Here's what engineers deploying AI systems need to understand.
- Whose Ethics? Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of AI Vendor Governance
Anthropic refused to delete one phrase from its AI usage policy. The Pentagon banned them, OpenAI filled the gap within hours, and the entire premise of 'safety-first' enterprise AI got stress-tested in real time. Here's what it means for engineering teams.