# inside ai — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover inside ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [The AI Whistleblower Protection Act](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/the-ai-whistleblower-protection-act) _2026-07-30 · Indah Harahap · AIWI: Inside AI_ The first federal bill for AI whistleblowers closes most of the gaps. A handful remain, and they fall on the witnesses who matter most. Read our suggestions and policy analysis. ## [AI Whistleblowing Law: A Best Practice Guide](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/ai-whistleblowing-law-a-best-practice) _2026-07-02 · Indah Harahap · AIWI: Inside AI_ Whistleblower law is premised on industries that hold still long enough to regulate & agencies equipped to act on what they receive. Ganz & Koch argue frontier AI satisfies neither condition in full. ## [Microservices Terms and Conditions](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/microservices-terms-and-conditions/) _2026-06-17 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Every piece of software comes with Terms and Conditions. Nobody reads them. They click Accept, install the software, and only discover six months later that it runs slower, costs more, and wants permission to everything. I sometimes think companies adopt microservices the same way. No one reads the terms People install software all the time, but almost nobody reads the Terms and Conditions. If one… ## [About](https://shvetsm.github.io/about/) _2026-06-15 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Bio I’m Mark, a software engineer who’s been building software professionally for more than two decades. I’ve worked everywhere from startups to large enterprises, shipping systems in finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. This blog isn’t about chasing the latest framework or predicting that AI will replace programmers next Tuesday. It’s about the things that… ## [The Most Valuable Documents in the Company](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/most-valuable-documents/) _2026-06-15 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ When we adopted Agile at MCA Solutions, management handed us what seemed like an impossible requirement: Every feature had to be developed and tested in the same sprint. At the time our sprints were three weeks long. Development alone could consume the entire sprint. QA often tested features weeks or even months later. The idea that testing would somehow happen alongside development felt detached… ## [Whistleblower Protections in SB 53: Strengths, Limitations, and Open Questions](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/whistleblower-protections-in-sb-53) _2026-06-09 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ Abra Ganz and Karl Koch argue that while SB 53 is a genuine step forward, it still puts the onus of disclosure on employees, yet what follows a report remains, at best, an open question... ## [The Magic File](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/the-magic-file/) _2026-05-26 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ One declaration to rule them all As a full-stack developer you work with a lot of data. Data that is stored, displayed, and processed in the bowels of your program. A lot of times there is a lot of repetition and repetition. The SQL CRUD, the UI CRUD. And when you are a junior programmer who is clever, you start thinking dangerous thoughts… premature abstraction thoughts… I am doing… ## [Keep the Kitchen Clean](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/keep-the-kitchen-clean/) _2026-05-22 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Bare metal I love food. There is something deeply human about sharing a meal, whether at home or in a restaurant. Some restaurants that I love have a view into their kitchen. Have you ever seen the kitchen at a good restaurant? One thing you may find surprising is how clean it is at all times. I mean I love to cook, but often after I am done cooking there is a mess to clean up. The restaurant… ## [The Best Engineers Write Less Code](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/the-best-engineers-write-less-code/) _2026-05-20 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Coding is expensive and time consuming We are living in an age of mass denial. Some very smart people are telling us that we no longer need to write good software because LLMs can generate code now. But terrible software is still terrible software, whether it was written by Claude Code or by a human who did not know what they were doing. The computers running it are still real. Latency is still… ## [Who looks at the code?](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/who-looks-at-the-code/) _2026-05-16 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Patio looks great At some point my friend re-did the patio at his suburban Bucks County home. He is a Russian American as well, and as part of our immigrant community everyone knows “a good guy”. You can always call someone who is only referred to by their first name. This person charges far less than a private licensed and insured contractor costs. When it was finished, the patio… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9Vg3fz8XqkEF) _2026-05-16 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [High AI ROI: Stack Traces](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/ai-roi-stack-traces/) _2026-05-11 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Who does square roots with a slide rule anymore? When I was a little kid in the USSR my grandpa showed me his slide rule. I loved playing with the scientific calculator and I knew what a square root was, but here was a device that grandpa used at work in the 1930s we were not sure if he was born in 1912 or 1914. But yeah the slide rule was the bees-knees or the top-pickle or whatever they said in… ## [High AI ROI: Working with legacy code](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/ai-roi-legacy-code/) _2026-05-05 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ The tale of the scheduled task that times out. Another day in paradise. We are directed to fix a prod issue that has been happening on and off for some time. The scheduled task is timing out. Again. We need to fix it.We already moved the job to the middle of the night so it could have the whole machine to itself. More memory. More CPU. Still timing out. Ugh this thing. Someone ought to rewrite it.… ## [Are we inside an AI bubble?](https://shvetsm.github.io/posts/bubbles/) _2026-05-01 · Home on The Grumpy Dev_ Are we inside an AI bubble? TLDR; Every bubble claims the old rules no longer apply. Having lived through several bubbles in the tech industry I offer my perspective. The technology changes. Human incentives do not. My bubbles As someone who was born, as my kids tell me, in the last century I have had the personal pleasure of expereincing several bubbles first hand. I am not an economist but I can… ## [New AIWI Resource: What Happens When AI Insiders Speak Up? Does It Have an Impact? Hear the Stories of Those Who Speak Up...](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/new-aiwi-resource-what-happens-when) _2026-03-10 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ A new in-depth AIWI resource documents 6 cases from named whistleblowers and 16 anonymous reports from inside frontier AI & big tech: the concerns they raised, the impact they've made, and the cost. ## [OpenAI Expands Their Raising Concerns Policy - AIWI’s Preliminary Assessment](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/openai-expands-their-raising-concerns) _2026-01-28 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ AIWI's evaluation of OpenAI's 2024 policy, engagement with OpenAI leadership, and preliminary analysis of the 2026 policy ## [AI Whistleblower Defense Grants and Pro Bono Legal Support by LASST, Psst.org, and The Signals Network](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/ai-whistleblower-defense-grants-and) _2025-12-18 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ AIWI can connect AI Insiders with organizations that offer pro bono legal support and provide grants to defray costs incurred by good faith AI whistleblowing cases. Find out how... ## [Anthropic Publishes Their (Partial) Whistleblowing Policy - First Thoughts And Context](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/anthropic-publishes-their-partial) _2025-12-08 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ As first reported by The Transformer, Anthropic has published their Responsible Scaling Policy Non Compliance Policy, outlining how individuals working for Anthropic can report instances of suspected RSP non-compliance within the company: ## [A Global First: EU AI Office Launches AI-Specialized Whistleblowing Channel](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/a-global-first-eu-ai-office-launches) _2025-11-28 · Chandini Stensel · AIWI: Inside AI_ Why This Matters: Expected Public Benefits, Insights for AI Insiders, and more... ## [OpenAI's Subpoenas, Pre-emption: AI Whistleblower Protections Under Threat, Adler on NVIDIA Pressure, Amazon's Water Usage, SB 243, MIRI Paper: International Agreements on AI](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/openais-subpoenas-pre-emption-and) _2025-11-24 · AIWI: Inside AI_ INSIDE AI #21: OpenAI's subpoenas against non-profits, Amazon's hidden datacenter water use, Meta's 600 lay-offs, A double whistleblower, SB243 signed & more... ## [Google AI Mass Layoff, Ex-OpenAI's $500M Funding, Palantir-ICE Exposed, Newsom Signs SB 53 ‘Whistleblower Protections’](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/google-ai-mass-layoff-ex-openais) _2025-10-07 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ INSIDE AI #20: Google AI Mass Layoff & Retaliation, Ex-OpenAI Applied Compute's Funding, Anthropic AI Surveillance 'Blocks' Federal Work, Palantir ICE Contracts Leaked, SB 53 Signed & more... ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/i9CAOWgzrQPB) _2025-10-07 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Meta Whistleblower: 3B WhatsApp Users at Risk, Meta Employees Testified: Child Safety Failures, OpenAI Sued Over Teen Suicide, SB 53 AI Whistleblower Bill Awaits Approval](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/meta-whistleblower-3b-whatsapp-users) _2025-09-19 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ INSIDE AI #19: Meta lawsuit over WhatsApp security flaws, OpenAI lawsuit over teen suicide case, Meta employees testify on child safety failures, California's SB 53 awaits Newsom's decision & more... ## [Meta’s Chatbot vs. Lawmakers, Whistleblower: DOGE Risked Social Security Data, Microsoft DoD Plan: Hidden China Links](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/metas-chatbot-vs-lawmakers-whistleblower) _2025-09-03 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ INSIDE AI #18: Meta faces lawmakers over its AI chatbots controversy, DOGE data whistleblower alert, Hidden China Engineers in Microsoft DoD Bid, and more... ## [INSIDE AI #17: Whistleblowing & EU AI Act | #PublishYourPolicies Updates | Nvidia's Trump Deal](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/inside-ai-17-whistleblowing-and-eu) _2025-08-20 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ Edition 17 ## [We Need Your Eyes on This: AI Companies Acknowledge AI Risks But Keep Their Whistleblowing Policies Secret](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/we-need-your-eyes-on-this-ai-companies) _2025-08-05 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ Our coalition of 30+ global organizations says this must end. At a minimum, AI companies must be transparent about their policies. Find out why here. ## [Internal Warnings, Public Stakes: Strengthening AI Whistleblower Protections in the EU](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/internal-warnings-public-stakes-strengthening) _2025-08-02 · Jakub Krys · AIWI: Inside AI_ A guest contributor by Jakub Kryś, as part of the Talos Fellowship ## [AI Companies: Publish Your Whistleblowing Policies](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/ai-companies-publish-your-whistleblowing) _2025-07-30 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ A Coalition Call Led by AIWI Was Officially Launched at the National Whistleblower Day Event on Capitol Hill. ## [OAISIS is now The AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI)](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/oaisis-is-now-the-ai-whistleblower) _2025-07-25 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ Our New Name, Our Unchanged Mission: Supporting Whistleblowers in AI ## [INSIDE AI #16: A Whistleblower’s Account on Huawei's Pangu | Ex-Meta & OpenAI Insiders Reflected on Culture | New Bid for SB53](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/inside-ai-16-a-whistleblowers-account) _2025-07-23 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ Edition 16 ## [INSIDE AI #15: OpenAI & Meta Talent Battle | OpenAI & Microsoft AGI Clause | Coming Soon: The AI Insider's OpSec & Privacy Toolkit and Valis Veil](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/inside-ai-15-openai-and-meta-talent) _2025-07-07 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ Edition 15 ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QgKaAI5JiKD0) _2025-07-07 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [AI Whistleblower Recommendations in CA's Working Group Report: Short on Highlighting International Best Practices, But Great in Highlighting Importance](https://aiwhistleblowerinitiative.substack.com/p/ai-whistleblower-recommendations) _2025-06-25 · AIWI · AIWI: Inside AI_ How the state's latest AI policy recommendations fall short of international best practices