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Squared: Leadership Edition — GPT-6 Astra can hack, so can attackers
OpenAI shipped a model rated 'critical' for cyber capability the same week four labs went dark at once.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Squared: Builder Edition — GPT-6 Astra hits Critical cyber
An AI engineer for under $6/hour, first model rated Critical on cyber, and Nvidia buys the model hub.
 • Daniel Usvyat
How We Cut an Agent's Token Bill 60% Without Losing Eval Points
An agent that's cheap in a pilot with fifty test runs can be ruinous at fifty thousand.
 • Daniel Usvyat
How We Stress-Test an AI Agent Before It Ships
Most agents pass their pre-launch checks because the checks ask the wrong question.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Five RAG Failure Modes We Keep Finding in Audits
Nearly every RAG audit we run starts the same way: a team convinced the fix is a bigger, smarter model, and a budget line item to prove it.
 • Daniel Usvyat

August 2026

How We Shipped a Support Agent That Deflected 40% of Tickets
Every support-agent pitch leads with a deflection number.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Squared: Builder Edition — The harness is the product now
Agent capability isn't just the model — the harness around it now dominates, and the incident retros prove it.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Squared: Leadership Edition — Nvidia just bought the open-model layer
Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face deal reshapes who controls open models — and the McKinsey ROI number stays flat.
 • Daniel Usvyat
The Agent That Passed Every Eval and Rotted Anyway
The dangerous failures aren't the ones that light up on launch day.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Squared: Builder Edition — Skills work until they quietly don't
Agent skills boost aggregate task success while silently failing the cases that matter — measure them properly.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Squared: Leadership Edition — Your AI vendor isn't sticky
Businesses swap between OpenAI and Anthropic on every model release — plan for it, don't fight it.
 • Daniel Usvyat
Squared: Leadership Edition — Compute is now an asset class
NVIDIA lined up $500B to finance AI infrastructure — that reprices every build-vs-buy decision you have.
 • Daniel Usvyat
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