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A pointed critique is making the rounds in developer circles: AI agent safety is still borrowing its mental model from old-school permission systems, and that may not be enough. The argument is that treating agents like users with access levels misses how these systems actually fail — not through unauthorized actions, but through misunderstood intentions. It's a framing problem as much as an engineering one.
Shifting to the developer tools space, Rhombus one point one is now available for the Racket programming language ecosystem. Rhombus has been one of the more ambitious language design projects in recent years, aiming to bring a cleaner syntax and more approachable surface to Racket's powerful foundations. Version one point one suggests the project is maturing past the experimental stage and into something practitioners can seriously consider.
And a cautionary tale for anyone managing web infrastructure: a Hacker News user discovered that switching nameservers to Cloudflare caused the company to silently inject a JavaScript analytics snippet into their otherwise JavaScript-free site. The user had to manually opt out after the fact. For a platform trusted with so much of the web's traffic, defaulting to opt-in rather than opt-out feels like a basic courtesy that went missing.
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