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How We Work: Automation Engagements
What an automation engagement with Atypical Tech actually looks like — from discovery through validation. No paved cow paths, no automation theater, no surprises.
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Thoughts on safe autonomy, engineering automation, and reducing cognitive overhead without putting your systems at risk.
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The OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI Is Here — What It Means for Your Deployment
OWASP released its first Top 10 for Agentic Applications. Here's what each risk means, why traditional AppSec frameworks fall short, and how to start securing your AI agents today.
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How We Work: Security Engagements
What a security engagement with Atypical Tech actually looks like — from the first call to the final deliverable. No mystery, no overhead, no surprises.
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The Interface Security Imperative
Every tool an agent can call is an attack surface. In agent-first architectures, the integration layer is the primary security boundary — and most teams aren't treating it that way.
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Palantirization and Safe Autonomy: The Same Bet
The trap a16z identified for FDE-model startups is identical to the trap facing AI agent deployments.
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Safe Autonomy for AppSec: Where AI Agents Actually Help
How the Safe Autonomy framework applies to vulnerability triage, alert correlation, compliance evidence, and security testing. AI agents can multiply your security team—if you build the right guardrails.
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Security Architecture for Startups: What Actually Matters
Right-sized security for seed-to-Series-B. What actually matters, what can wait, and the mental model that scales.
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Accountability Stays Human: The Accountability Proxy
Autonomy concentrates responsibility. Here’s why every agent needs a named human owner and runtime governance controls.
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Interfaces Define Capability and Risk
The integration surface isn’t an implementation detail — it’s the boundary that determines what autonomy can safely do.
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Structure Beats Prompts: ROBOT in the Wild
Same model, different outcomes: why supervision, specialization, triage, and long-horizon context management matter more than prompt cleverness.
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Reveal Is Not Optional: The Trust Layer Autonomy Can’t Skip
Why “show your work” is a control surface, not a UX detail — and how evidence packets, confidence bands, and verification gates prevent the false confidence tax.
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Safe Autonomy in the Real World: 4 Lessons from a Live Humans-vs-Agents Trial
A case-study-driven series on what changes when agents operate in messy reality: reveal, structure, interfaces, and human accountability.