When I wrote The Calibration Standard I put the whole burden on the model. Nine rules, three of them hard stops, all of them addressed to a system that cannot reliably tell what it knows from what it invented.
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There is a number buried in the GPT-5 system card that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about.
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Where Evidence Ends and Judgment Begins in the GPT-5 System Card
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Why Seat-at-the-Table Thinking Is the Wrong Frame for AI Safety
Everyone who cares about AI safety wants a seat at the table. I understand the instinct: decisions are consequential, timelines are compressed, and the people making them are few. If you care about the outcome, you want to be in that room.
A friend started sharing reading lists with his team, and I liked the idea enough to adopt it as my own. Every book here changed something — about how I think about building teams, making decisions, or understanding what high performance actually requires. The order isn’t alphabetical or chronological. It’s an argument.
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The most dangerous AI mistakes are not knowledge failures. They happen when the model misjudges the reliability of its own answers. These are calibration failures: moments when the model cannot distinguish between what it knows, what it suspects, and what it simply invented. Nothing tells the model to distinguish between confident and correct.
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The Globe-Trotter’s Guide to Staying Off the Grid
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Hey Team,
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What We Want:
Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, and Dave Thomas” https://agilemanifesto.org/
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Recently my peers and I were asked for recommendations we thought worthy of a company wide book club. I suggested Sun Tzu’s The Art of War as I have long harbored the idea that it has lessons to teach us in modern software development. Ultimately the book was not chosen, having been accused of being just a coffee table book.
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