A 1972 Paper Is the Best AI Safety Tool You're Not Using Chapter 10 - Parnas, information hiding, and the harnessable codebase
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A 1972 paper might be one of the most practical tools for building safer AI agents. In 1972, David Parnas argued that software modules should hide design decisions that are likely to change. More than five decades later, that idea has a new job: making codebases safer for AI agents to work in. Here…
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A 1972 Paper Is the Best AI Safety Tool You're Not Using Chapter 10 - Parnas, information hiding, and the harnessable codebase