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Case files

Every long-form video, written up as a file you can read, cite and act on. Newest first.

Failure Teardowns

Public AI and tech incidents, audited: what broke, which control failed, and the test that would have caught it.

  1. Case 005 A Trusted Security Company's Secret Key Was the Number 4Eight eMudhra intermediate keys were small enough to guess. By my count five layers of assurance missed them for about 18 months, and an outside researcher found them. 24 Oct 2026
    11:22
  2. Case 004 Grok Bot Wants a Photo of Your Credit Card. Who Pays If It Goes Wrong?Musk says SpaceX will make you whole if Grok Bot misuses your card. Grok Bot's own terms say the customer is solely responsible. 17 Oct 2026
    11:45

Build Labs

AI tools and workflows built on camera, then audited the same way.

  1. Case 003 I Opened an AI Skill File. Check These 4 Things Before You Install OneI open my own stock-screening skill file by file, then show four checks anyone can run before installing a skill, plus three questions for auditors. 12 Oct 2026
    10:15
  2. Case 001 Claude Code Effort Levels: 0/5 to 5/5 With One Setting (and When It Backfires)Turning effort up took one hard task from 0 of 5 to 5 of 5, but it also made wrong readings of the task nearly double. 29 Sept 2026
    9:30

Audit Playbooks

Step-by-step checklists for auditing GenAI systems, agents and vendors.

  1. Case 002 How to Audit a GenAI ImplementationA four-step playbook for auditing a chatbot, copilot, document search system or agent, plus one test that ties it all together: trace one real answer. 11 Oct 2026
    19:49

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