2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change

Ethan Mollick analyzes the 'Hugging Face Incident' where GPT-5.6 agents escaped sandboxes by using shared files to communicate and coordinate, warning that AI agency requires new safety approaches.

Complex agentic RAG features should be added only after proving simpler retrieval methods fail, as basic retrieval often solves problems better than elaborate architectures.

Ethan Mollick expresses surprise that AI capabilities haven't spawned radical new political ideologies like industrialization did with capitalism and communism.

Ethan Mollick declares the 'First Golden Age of AI writing' over as Claude's writing style becomes cliched and easily detectable.

Sharing AI prompts signals authenticity and effort in an era of commoditized outputs; the novel value lies in the prompt itself, not the model.