Microsoft announced Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot, introducing Copilot Cowork as a new AI-driven work mode that executes multi-step tasks across Office applications. However, Copilot Cowork is a double misnomer because the tool qualifies as neither a copilot nor a coworker.

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Twenty years ago, I authored my first 4sysops blog post. However, my fascination with IT started much earlier. I can't recall exactly how I came to this realization, but I initially believed that computers were superior learning tools to books and that studying how to use them would give me superpowers. Forgive me, I was just an immature teenager. Although I soon forgot this idea, I was already hooked after the initial lines of my first computer program.

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OpenAI, once the undisputed leader of the generative AI boom, is now caught in a convergence of technical, competitive, financial, and trust crises that threaten its long-term survival. This is a shortened version of my article, the OpenAI Bubble.

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Visual Studio Code version 1.109 introduces agent orchestrations — a feature that transforms the IDE into a multi-agent development platform. You can now create custom agents that collaborate, delegate tasks to specialized subagents, and execute complex workflows autonomously. This article explains the concept and demonstrates agent orchestration with a simple example. I'll also share my opinion on Microsoft's concept of agent orchestrations. It's not particularly favorable.

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OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot and briefly as Moltbot, is a free, open‑source personal AI agent that runs locally on your computer, enabling you to automate any task a human can perform on a computer. It gained rapid popularity, accumulating 100,000 GitHub stars in record time, along with tens of thousands of forks as it went viral. OpenClaw skills pose severe security risks because they are unvetted modules that may contain hidden, malicious instructions for the agent's model. These harmful instructions could result in API key leaks, data theft, credential compromise, and system breaches due to malicious code execution. This guide covers OpenClaw skill structure, known security incidents, and step-by-step instructions for scanning agent skills with the Cisco AI Skill Scanner. The Cisco AI Skill Scanner provides comprehensive security analysis of OpenClaw agent skills before installation, detecting malware, data exfiltration, and prompt-injection vulnerabilities.

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In an interview, Anthropic's Daniela Amodei suggested that AI deployments "might hit a wall because of human reasons." This post summarizes my views on the new Human Wall, based on my more detailed discussion of the interview in which Anthropic's president also touches on the outdated AGI concept, the discontinuation of exponentials, and the AI bubble.

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This is a reality check regarding Geoffrey Hinton's recent alarming warnings about AI advancing faster than expected. Having used all frontier models extensively in my daily work, I believe his worries are misplaced, mainly because he overvalues LLMs' abilities. The supposed exponential AI advancement we were promised simply hasn't materialized. Below, I summarize the key points of a longer article. You can read the entire article here: Hinton’s AI Progress Illusion: An IT Reality Check.

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Microsoft released Visual Studio Code version 1.107 with new features focused on Agent HQ, a multi-agent orchestration interface introduced in version 1.106. In version 1.107, background agents are promoted beyond pure CLI-based sessions: they run as named background tasks with isolated worktrees and richer context attachment, and appear as manageable sessions in the Agent HQ experience (the integrated Chat + sessions UI), rather than existing only as Copilot CLI or cloud sessions.

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