Ronald Ashri
@istos.bsky.social
He / Him. Founder / Technologist. Empathy / Kindness ❤️. 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇨🇾
Writing about AI agents at AgentsDecoded.com
Writing about AI agents at AgentsDecoded.com
understanding and clearly articulating challenges in AI agent deployment is key - a recent paper provides a useful framework through which to express them
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Understanding AI Agents through the Generality - Accuracy - Simplicity (GAS) Framework
Understanding and clearly articulating challenges and trade-offs is key to successful AI Agent deployments. A recent paper provides a great framework through which to express them.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
understanding and clearly articulating challenges in AI agent deployment is key - a recent paper provides a useful framework through which to express them
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
Very disappointing.
Very sad to see the UK Labour party today vote to reject common sense legislation, introduced this week in the Lords, that would make AI companies disclose their training data - which would let British creators enforce their rights.
Legislation the Lords support, and all other parties support.
Legislation the Lords support, and all other parties support.
May 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Very disappointing.
CIAO Design Principle #2: Explicit rules defined in code are better than implicit rules defined in prompts.
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CIAO Design Principle #2: Explicit Rules in Code Beat Implicit Rules in Prompts
CIAO (Conversations-Interfaces-Agents-Orchestration) is an AI application framework that is not afraid to clearly say that explicit code is better than prompts.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
CIAO Design Principle #2: Explicit rules defined in code are better than implicit rules defined in prompts.
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
Pope Leo the 13th advocated for workers rights and fair wages during the first industrial revolution.
The new Pope - Leo the 14th - apparently picked the name to “respond to another industrial revolution and to the developments in artificial intelligence”.
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The new Pope - Leo the 14th - apparently picked the name to “respond to another industrial revolution and to the developments in artificial intelligence”.
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Il discorso di papa Leone XIV ai cardinali: “Il nome scelto per rispondere alle sfide dell’IA”
Prevost ha incontrato i porporati per un saluto finale e per condividere alcune riflessioni: “Mi aiutate in giogo superiore alle mie forze”
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May 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pope Leo the 13th advocated for workers rights and fair wages during the first industrial revolution.
The new Pope - Leo the 14th - apparently picked the name to “respond to another industrial revolution and to the developments in artificial intelligence”.
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/doss...
The new Pope - Leo the 14th - apparently picked the name to “respond to another industrial revolution and to the developments in artificial intelligence”.
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/doss...
CIAO stands for Conversations - Interfaces - Agents - Orchestration and it is an architectural framework for describing AI-powered applications to help teams better reason about what they actually need to design and build
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CIAO 👋 - A Unifying Architectural Framework for AI-powered applications
We are creating a new type of software application.
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May 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
CIAO stands for Conversations - Interfaces - Agents - Orchestration and it is an architectural framework for describing AI-powered applications to help teams better reason about what they actually need to design and build
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
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Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.
May 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.
“Maybe we need to work on other ways of coming alive”. youtu.be/-27a1ugJX8U?...
Pulp - Spike Island (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pulp
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May 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Maybe we need to work on other ways of coming alive”. youtu.be/-27a1ugJX8U?...
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
[Emerging Standards] A2A Protocol: New Era of Agent Collaboration or Just APIs in a Trench Coat?
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April 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
[Emerging Standards] A2A Protocol: New Era of Agent Collaboration or Just APIs in a Trench Coat?
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
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In comparison, what Argentina’s Milei did with crypto was amateur time. What are mere 10s of millions of a crypto scam compared to the 100s of millions of pump and dump currently going on in the USA.
April 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In comparison, what Argentina’s Milei did with crypto was amateur time. What are mere 10s of millions of a crypto scam compared to the 100s of millions of pump and dump currently going on in the USA.
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The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
April 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
Scrolling through #TeslaTakeDown demonstration postings across the world is a great Sunday morning pick-me-up. Highly recommended.
March 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Scrolling through #TeslaTakeDown demonstration postings across the world is a great Sunday morning pick-me-up. Highly recommended.
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"When this government says disabled people ought to work, we ask:
Where are the jobs?
The level-access commuter trains?
The accessible homes?
The carers to dress me at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.)
The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?"- Anna Landre
Where are the jobs?
The level-access commuter trains?
The accessible homes?
The carers to dress me at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.)
The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?"- Anna Landre
March 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"When this government says disabled people ought to work, we ask:
Where are the jobs?
The level-access commuter trains?
The accessible homes?
The carers to dress me at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.)
The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?"- Anna Landre
Where are the jobs?
The level-access commuter trains?
The accessible homes?
The carers to dress me at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.)
The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?"- Anna Landre
🤦🏽♂️ know what’s a really great way to learn how to think, break down problems and communicate clearly? Learn how to CODE!
Let’s conveniently ignore how people in tech making the most out of AI tools are… people who know how to code
They are now called “AI engineers” sometimes as well
While everyone else is stuck promoting LLMs to try and fix increasingly complicated code generated they just do it
They are now called “AI engineers” sometimes as well
While everyone else is stuck promoting LLMs to try and fix increasingly complicated code generated they just do it
March 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🤦🏽♂️ know what’s a really great way to learn how to think, break down problems and communicate clearly? Learn how to CODE!
come on who hasn’t accidentally cc’ed someone at work and then went on to share highly classified information regarding an imminent military strike while also badmouthing their allies and attempting to set a price for their bombing service while also gloating about how well they killed people
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
come on who hasn’t accidentally cc’ed someone at work and then went on to share highly classified information regarding an imminent military strike while also badmouthing their allies and attempting to set a price for their bombing service while also gloating about how well they killed people
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In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N
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I'm sorry but Jasmine Crockett saying, F"ind a little trans child that is ruining your life!" is well giving me life. She is both very right and very funny.
March 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm sorry but Jasmine Crockett saying, F"ind a little trans child that is ruining your life!" is well giving me life. She is both very right and very funny.
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Victory for @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social in case against #Meta!
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: you do not have to put up with targeted ads and profiling
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: you do not have to put up with targeted ads and profiling
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
www.thetimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Victory for @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social in case against #Meta!
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: you do not have to put up with targeted ads and profiling
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: you do not have to put up with targeted ads and profiling
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
What the LLM industry is doing is not dissimilar to what robber barons across the ages have done. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and others have identified a natural resource, content produced over centuries of human labour, and a means to exploit it, productised LLMs
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[AI Agent Diaries] The LLM industry's dirty secret and what to do about it.
The LLM industry is experiencing a mini ChatGPT-in-reverse moment this week with The Atlantic's release of the LibGen search tool, showing how much pirated material is used for LLM training.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
What the LLM industry is doing is not dissimilar to what robber barons across the ages have done. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and others have identified a natural resource, content produced over centuries of human labour, and a means to exploit it, productised LLMs
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
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Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants.
History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
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History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants.
History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
🧵
History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
🧵
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Smashing the endorse button as fast as I can
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A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress — LessWrong
This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is my current, fairly optimistic take on where we're heading. …
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March 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Smashing the endorse button as fast as I can
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