The whole essay is worth reading, but the core is one line: the tools you build bend to you; the tools you rent bend you to them. For anything small enough to build, that trade is almost always worth making.
June 2026
Opinions need a system underneath
Most AI-security commentary is opinion with nothing behind it. The gap is the whole point.
There is no shortage of takes on AI security. Feeds are full of them — confident, abstract, and untethered from anything that runs. The supply of opinion is effectively infinite, which means opinion by itself is worth almost nothing.