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Articles by Levon Azevedo on technology, AI and security. The full stories behind our social posts, including Tech Evolution and When, Not If.
12 articles
01Tech Evolution · 8 min
We Benchmark Agents at 50%. We Deploy Them at 99%.
The field publishes agent time horizons at 50% and 80% reliability. Serious production decisions are made at 98%+ — and METR says in writing that the 99% number cannot be fit at all with the benchmarks that exist. The…
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 9 min
The Attack Surface Moved Into the Tool List
A backdoored LiteLLM release, a 9.6-severity flaw in mcp-remote, and 200,000 vulnerable MCP server instances: the 2026 CVE record shows prompt injection and tool poisoning have moved from lab scenario to production…
Voice narration availableWhen, Not If · 13 min
What Alberta Law Actually Requires the Day You Find Out
The day you find out, you may have three sets of legal obligations, not one — different thresholds, different clocks, different lists of who must be told. PIPA, PIPEDA and HIA mapped against each other from primary…
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 9 min
The Bottleneck Moved to the Spec
Developers now spend more time reviewing AI-generated code than writing it — 11.4 hours a week versus 9.8, a reversal a fresh Q1 2026 survey confirms. The industry's answer is spec-driven development, adopted by eight…
Voice narration availableWhen, Not If · 4 min
The cheapest developer you ever hired
Canadian courts have been kind to breached companies — but Setoguchi describes a fact pattern, not a shield, and Owsianik left negligence, contract and statutory claims alive. Negligence asks whether your conduct was…
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 10 min
Smarter Models, Same Spreadsheet
Model capability rose fast and verifiably — Humanity's Last Exam from under 10% to 38.3% in a year, SWE-bench Verified to 76.8% by February 2026 — while value capture inside organizations did not keep pace; buyer data…
Voice narration availableWhen, Not If · 2 min
Your backup is a belief, not a system
90% of security leaders are confident they can recover from a cyber incident; among organizations actually hit by ransomware, 28% got all of their data back — the distance between those two numbers is the distance…
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 9 min
You Can't Audit a Belief
Agent capability is scaling like software while accountability still scales like headcount — 82% of executives believe policy covers them and only 21% have runtime visibility into what their agents are doing; the…
Voice narration availableWhen, Not If · 3 min
Alberta doesn't require you to tell your customers
Under Alberta's PIPA, the legal duty after a breach is to notify the Commissioner (s. 34.1) — notifying customers is a decision the law leaves with the Commissioner (s. 37.1); yet 80%+ of organizations notify on their…
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 9 min
Attackers Don't Have to Be Right
AI's security asymmetry isn't offensive capability — offense tolerates being wrong and defense can't, so the cost of verification per action, not model quality, decides where autonomous defense lands.
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 8 min
Code Got Cheap. Trust Didn't.
AI scaled code generation ~3x but verification scaled 0x, migrating the bottleneck (and the senior-engineer cost) into review/release — and standard metrics measure the wrong scarcity.
Voice narration availableTech Evolution · 7 min
Every Agent Is a Principal Now
Machine identities outnumber humans 109:1 and 79 of them are AI agents; identity is the unglamorous layer that decides whether enterprise agent adoption compounds or stalls.
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