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Issue 333: The AI jackpot

We’re all taking a gamble with AI. Whether you’re someone strategizing AI adoption across your org or using a coding agent to vibe your way through a code base, you’re betting on AI being the tool of the future. Some may say we need to hedge our bets—especially when it comes to security—but the industry at large is still rolling the dice with the hope of big wins with AI.

This week, we’ve got the spread on the wins and losses so far for AI. On our podcast, Tanya Janca joins us again to talk making secure bets with AI code and why the OWASP Top 10 release included vibe coding as an awareness item. Principal Venture Partners’ Songyee Yoon sat down with us at HumanX to chat being a player in the international AI game, and what VCs are looking for when going all-in on a global AI company.

From the web, people in communities around The States aren’t feeling so lucky when it comes to transparency from data centers, while Stanford lawyers took a gamble on AI in their classes. We’ll let you be the judge on whether they cashed out big when they found out AI outperformed their instructors. And we won’t leave your knowledge up to chance. Lady luck must be in your favor because we’ve got Q&As from our site on everything from hot propellers to Nietzsche. You bet that’s all ready for you down below (with so much more).

From the blog

What it takes to be a player in the international AI game

From the floor of HumanX, Ryan welcomes Songyee Yoon, managing partner at Principal Venture Partners (PVP), to chat about AI development outside the US, from the need to adapt models to local languages and culture to the challenges of the global supply-chain for things like semiconductors to how venture capital is looking at international AI companies.

Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era

Ryan welcomes back Tanya Janca, now part of the OWASP Top 10 team, to discuss what changed in the latest OWASP Top 10 release, how the list shifted from “outdated components” to a broader software supply chain focus, and why they added memory safety and vibe-coding as awareness items.

Interviews aren’t about you (sorry)

What interviewers are actually looking for is very different from you'd assume if you're the one sweating in the hotseat.

You shipped it fast. But did you ship it right?

Why AI-accelerated teams keep breaking production — and what the ones that don't are doing differently

Stop Guessing on AI Search Providers

Choosing an AI search provider from a few test queries is risky. This guide from You.com shows how to evaluate AI search systematically with a golden query set and metrics for accuracy, relevance, and confidence—reducing guesswork and hallucinations.

Interesting questions

What does "treat the propeller as if it's always hot" mean in practice?

Maybe the better way to say it is, “Treat the propeller as if it’s a giant blade that could slice you in half.”

Earliest work of sci-fi to have a prequel

Personally, we would love a prequel to Gilgamesh.

Was Nietzsche the first psychologist?

We’re on record saying there are no dumb questions.

Where did Dirac say he can only study/work 4 hours a day?

It’s still more than Tim Ferriss works.

Links from around the web

If data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?

Figuring out what’s happening in your community shouldn’t be an Agatha Christie novel.

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work—but only for half an hour at a time

It's like smoke breaks but for being spied on.

PlayStation architecture

The only way you can get a PS5 is if you build your own.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford law study

ChatGPT: L.L.M, Ph.D, M.D, and now J.D.

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