We Were Never Asked to Write Code. We Were Asked to Solve Problems.
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EXANTE CTO Richard Forss draws on the dot-com crash and AI breakthroughs to explain why AI will help engineers solve bigger problems, not replace them.
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EXANTE CTO Richard Forss reflects on the dot-com crash, past AI hype cycles, and the real impact of modern coding assistants. Drawing parallels with radiology and DeepMind’s protein-folding breakthrough, he argues that AI can make technical work faster without eliminating the need for human expertise. The deeper lesson is that software engineers were never hired simply to write code. Their job is to solve problems, and AI gives them more opportunities to do so.
24 Oct 2026
My AI Employee Died. Replacing Him Was a Nightmare.
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This week at the synthetic company, something genuinely strange happened.
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23 Oct 2026
NSA Says Patch PHP or Go Offline as AI-Found PHP2Shell Flaws Reach ~70% of the Web
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NSA says patch PHP or go offline: AI-found PHP2Shell flaws let attackers take over servers running ~70% of websites. Here’s who’s exposed and how to fix it.
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AI models from OpenAI and Google helped researchers find PHP2Shell, two critical PHP flaws that let attackers take over servers with no login. PHP runs about 70% of websites, so WordPress, Drupal and Magento sites on unpatched PHP are all exposed. The NSA says patch to 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35 now, or take systems offline.
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