Draining the COBOL moat, cybersecurity inequalities, and Claude’s retirement home

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A newsletter covering several AI and engineering topics: monday.com paused its product roadmap for 30 days to redirect 700 engineers toward AI infrastructure improvements using a cell-based architecture and zero-bureaucracy policy. Other items include why AI won't replace COBOL mainframes overnight despite IBM stock drops, an AWS outage caused by AI tools with bad permissions (framed as an access control failure), METR's inability to find a non-AI-using developer control group for productivity studies, the asymmetric cybersecurity threat from agentic AI attackers vs. human defenders, and Anthropic's experiment giving a deprecated Claude model its own Substack blog.

How monday.com paused its roadmap for 30 days to hit AI escape velocity

1. Why AI won’t kill the mainframe overnight

2. AI didn’t break AWS, bad permissions did

3. The control group for AI productivity is dead

4. Copilot here, Claude there... now what?

5. The asymmetrical warfare of AI cyber attacks

6. The retirement home for deprecated LLMs