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How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)

Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.

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Unpopular Opinion: Why I’m an AI Skeptic

With all the hype in the past several years around AI (or more specifically GenAI), I'm not afraid to say – I'm an AI skeptic.

  • AI hype is driven by irrational enthusiasm, not solid evidence
  • Current AI lacks true self-learning and emotional capabilities
  • Enterprise benefits from AI are uncertain until technology matures

How do you catch it when a model update changes your agent's tool calls?

Your agent calls get_weather(city="London") . The provider ships a new model version. Now it calls get_weather(location="London, UK") , your downstream parser breaks, and nothing in CI told you.

  • Toolcontract library detects model update changes to tool calls
  • Golden set of expected tool calls serves as contract
  • Library supports strict, unordered, subset, superset trajectory matching

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