Fragments: September 24

A roundup of three unrelated observations: Rob Bowley argues the real AI danger isn't a sci-fi extinction scenario but the reckless, fast integration of today's AI into everything without understood safety controls, including exposure to the 'Lethal Trifecta' security hole in agentic systems. Nikita Prokopov's critique of over-colored syntax highlighting is discussed, favoring a minimal palette (string, constants, comments, top-level definitions) with muted colors for less important elements, which matters more now that agentic coding means people read more code than they write. Finally, a reflection on Vinoo Ganesh's essay about Forward Deployed Engineers, noting the term covers wildly different jobs across companies (Palantir, Snowflake, Anthropic, startups), and connecting the concept to older ideas like Domain-Driven Design and Agile's push for developer-business collaboration.

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