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A piece making the rounds today asks a pointed question: do you actually need a stockbroker? The article over at arachnoid dot com walks through the data on passive investing versus active management, and the case it builds is hard to dismiss. For most individual investors, the math simply does not favor paying someone to pick stocks.
That conversation connects neatly to a longer-horizon question being explored in a new webcomic called AI two thousand forty. It imagines the social and economic landscape two decades out, using sequential art to do what dense white papers often cannot — make abstract trade-offs feel human and immediate. It is an early project, but the ambition is worth watching.
And from Hacker News, a more operational concern: a developer has released a tool called Interlock, designed to catch what they call MCP tool drift — the problem that arises when an AI agent's approved behavior quietly shifts between the moment you sign off on it and the moment it actually executes. As autonomous agents take on more responsibility, that gap between approval and action is exactly the kind of vulnerability that tends to matter before anyone admits it does.
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