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13 Sep 2026

When AI Companies Begin to Understand Their Users: The Other Risk in Anthropic’s Report

What struck me when I read Anthropic’s September threat intelligence report was how much the company could piece together about its users’ activities. It

09 Aug 2026 engineering-judgment

Engineering Power and Responsibility

Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 8 Engineering decisions change character when they enter an organization. On a whiteboard, an architecture can be evaluated through constraints, tradeoffs,

29 Jul 2026 engineering-judgment

What AI Acceleration Makes Us Lose

Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 7 I have started to notice a particular kind of discomfort in engineering work. The output is arriving faster. Code that

Do Not Validate New Technology Inside Product Systems

23 Jul 2026 engineering-judgment

Do Not Validate New Technology Inside Product Systems

Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 6 Publish date: 2026-07-23 "We can use this product project to validate the new technology" is one

Innovation Is a Value Judgment

17 Jul 2026 engineering-judgment

Innovation Is a Value Judgment

Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 5 Publish date: 2026-07-17 Web: https://shikelabs.com/articles/innovation-is-a-value-judgment Innovation is one of the