There's no warrant and often no real oversight. Normally police need a judge's permission (a warrant) to track someone. Flock can let them search where your car has been without that step, which is why people call it "warrantless surveillance." And it's been misused: several towns like Oshkosh and Appleton canceled their Flock contracts over privacy concerns and several incidents of misuse by law enforcement.

You don't control the data, and the rules can change. This is a big one. When Brookings agreed to install the cameras, the city was promised it would own the data, that retention would be temporary, and that Flock would not sell the information, with the contract stating Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Then in February 2026 Flock rewrote its terms, granting itself a perpetual, irrevocable license to use and disclose all customer data, and deleted the promise not to sell that data. So data collected about you can outlive the promises that were made when the camera went up.

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Something I recently started doing that I really like is, when building a feature, I write acceptance criteria and then I make sure the agents have everything they need to do QA and verify it themselves. The main difference from before is that instead of QAing it myself (which I still do but it's almost always working), the agent can exercise the whole flow itself and verify the acceptance criteria. It takes more work because I often have to set up MCPs, accounts, credentials, etc - but the output is better.

My question... do people have good approaches to this? Is this a common workflow? I see some of this conversation called harness engineering; I see some called feedback-loop engineering; I see some startups (Shiplight AI, Autosana, Ranger). I'm trying to find more discussion & best practices here, and see how others are thinking about this.

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I have a lot of trouble keeping these separate. I use MacOS - you can have many desktops, but they're all in the same workspace. I think what I was is something like tmux for my whole computer, where I can switch away from a project and come back and be where I left off, with only the content from that project.

I actually tried to build this myself as the OS level, but Mac seems to lock everything down pretty hard.

Anybody have a good solution?

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However, if you live in the US and pay a passing attention to our idiotic politics, you know this is right out of the Trump playbook. It goes like this:

* Make a negotiation personal

* Emotionally lash out and kill the negotiation

* Complete a worse or similar deal, with a worse or similar party

* Celebrate your worse deal as a better deal

Importantly, you must waste enormous time and resources to secure nothing of substance.

That's why I actually believe that OpenAI will meet the same bar Anthropic did, at least for now. Will they continue to, in the same way Anthropic would have? Seems unlikely, but we'll see.

However, if you live in the US and pay a passing attention to our idiotic politics, you know this is right out of the Trump playbook. It goes like this:

* Make a negotiation personal

* Emotionally lash out and kill the negotiation

* Complete a worse or similar deal, with a worse or similar party

* Celebrate your worse deal as a better deal

Importantly, you must waste enormous time and resources to secure nothing of substance.

That's why I actually believe that OpenAI will meet the same bar Anthropic did, at least for now. Will they continue to, in the same way Anthropic would have? Seems unlikely, but we'll see.

Software developers have spent the last twenty years blabbing about how product management is useless and coding is the one true skill.