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  "title": "The Condition Set — Blog",
  "description": "Essays on AI, oversight, FinOps, and the stories that shape how we understand what's happening.",
  "home_page_url": "https://theconditionset.com/",
  "feed_url": "https://theconditionset.com/feed.json",
  "authors": [{ "name": "Tim O'Brien", "url": "https://theconditionset.com" }],
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    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/redundant-is-out/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/redundant-is-out/",
      "title": "I Finally Published the Book",
      "summary": "Redundant is a novel about FinOps, organizational power, and the things companies do with the truth",
      "date_published": "2026-07-27",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-27"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-model-your-defenders-arent-allowed-to-use/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-model-your-defenders-arent-allowed-to-use/",
      "title": "The Model Your Defenders Aren’t Allowed to Use",
      "summary": "Why tightly governed organizations need an AI break-glass plan.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-23",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-23"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-benchmarks-they-dont-bring-to-the-announcement/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-benchmarks-they-dont-bring-to-the-announcement/",
      "title": "The Benchmarks They Don’t Bring to the Announcement",
      "summary": "Your Expensive Frontier Model Still Can't Read a Clock.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-20",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-20"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-oversight-gap/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-oversight-gap/",
      "title": "The Oversight Gap",
      "summary": "The pitch is full autonomy. The bill always comes due as a human who still has to understand the system.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-10",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-10"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-price-is-not-right/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-price-is-not-right/",
      "title": "The Price Is Not Right",
      "summary": "Two CNBC interviews, one week apart, and they're both saying the same thing from opposite directions.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-07",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-07"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-authenticity-recession/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-authenticity-recession/",
      "title": "The Authenticity Recession",
      "summary": "AI's hidden costs, forced adoption, and the slow erosion of trust.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-01",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-01"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-drill-were-not-running/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-drill-were-not-running/",
      "title": "The Drill We're Not Running",
      "summary": "In June, I wrote about knowledge decayhttps://medium.com/p/7b7736fc2d96 — the HBR piece about AI slop embedded at every step of a process...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-27",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-27"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/nobodys-watching-the-total/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/nobodys-watching-the-total/",
      "title": "Nobody's Watching the Total",
      "summary": "OpenRouter does something right that most providers don't. You can set a daily spend limit — $100/day, hard cap — and when you hit it, re...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-27",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-27"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/whats-the-slow-boil/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/whats-the-slow-boil/",
      "title": "What's the Slow Boil?",
      "summary": "In 1999 I started working at TheStreet.com, which at the time was what passed for a real financial news website.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-26",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-26"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-token-economy-is-eating-the-internet/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-token-economy-is-eating-the-internet/",
      "title": "The Token Economy Is Eating the Internet",
      "summary": "Something is happening to information that we don't have a word for yet. Every metric we use to measure the internet — page views, unique...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-26",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-26"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-slop-flood/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-slop-flood/",
      "title": "The Slop Flood",
      "summary": "curl is in billions of devices. It's the backbone of HTTP communication. If you used the internet today, curl was involved. And curl is, ...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-26",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-26"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-majority-of-the-internet-is-not-human/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-majority-of-the-internet-is-not-human/",
      "title": "The Majority of the Internet Is Not Human",
      "summary": "If you've run a website for any meaningful chunk of the last twenty years, you already knew this. Some percentage of your traffic was alw...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-26",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-26"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-ball-knew-and-the-judge-was-wrong/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-ball-knew-and-the-judge-was-wrong/",
      "title": "The Ball Knew and the Judge Was Wrong",
      "summary": "We don't need referees anymore. We just haven't told them.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-25",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-25"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-middle/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-middle/",
      "title": "The Middle",
      "summary": "For most of my career I've worked in the middle — not quite a developer, not quite an operator, which meant I wasn't fully claimed by eit...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-22"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/ai-capability-theater-why-everyones-driving-a-ferrari/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/ai-capability-theater-why-everyones-driving-a-ferrari/",
      "title": "AI Capability Theater: Why Everyone’s Driving a Ferrari",
      "summary": "Drive to work tomorrow and look around. You’re not surrounded by Ferraris. You’re surrounded by Subarus, Fords, and Toyotas — cars that g...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-22"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/failure-is-the-feature/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/failure-is-the-feature/",
      "title": "No One Gets to Be Wrong Anymore",
      "summary": "Here is what I have started to notice.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-21",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-21"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/every-new-technology-rewrites-us-a-little/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/every-new-technology-rewrites-us-a-little/",
      "title": "Every New Technology Rewrites You a Little",
      "summary": "In 1992 I could dial most of my friends from memory. Not because I sat down and memorized their numbers — you just absorbed them. You cal...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-20",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-20"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-forced-adoption/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-forced-adoption/",
      "title": "You Helped Build This. You Can't Turn It Off.",
      "summary": "A few things worth reading this week, and a thread that connects them.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-19",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-19"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/tokens-arent-dollars/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/tokens-arent-dollars/",
      "title": "Tokens Aren't Dollars",
      "summary": "I value the FinOps Foundation. I think JR is doing good work. But the pivot to \"Tokenomics\" — treating AI spend as a token-counting exerc...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-18",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-18"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-orchestrator/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-orchestrator/",
      "title": "The Orchestrator",
      "summary": "I dislike the term \"citizen developerhttps://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/citizen-developer.\" It speaks down to peo...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-18",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-18"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/read-it-before-you-send-it/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/read-it-before-you-send-it/",
      "title": "Read It Before You Send It",
      "summary": "People are getting sick of your AI output. They really are.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-18",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-18"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/multiple-versions-of-the-truth/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/multiple-versions-of-the-truth/",
      "title": "Multiple Versions of the Truth",
      "summary": "There's a moment in every FinOps leader's career when you realize something uncomfortable. More than one team views itself as the authori...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-18",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-18"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/its-not-that-simple/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/its-not-that-simple/",
      "title": "It's Not That Simple",
      "summary": "FinOps is a combo discipline. Finance plus technical operations. That's not a weakness — it's the whole point. But it means you end up wi...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-18",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-18"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/when-the-numbers-dont-back-you-up/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/when-the-numbers-dont-back-you-up/",
      "title": "When the Numbers Don't Back You Up",
      "summary": "If you run FinOps at a large company, you've been in this meeting. Once or twice a year — more if it's a bad year — you get wheeled into ...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-17",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-17"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-finops-ceiling/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-finops-ceiling/",
      "title": "The Ceiling",
      "summary": "Here's something that happens to FinOps leaders. You do the job well enough that you start getting invited to meetings with EVPs and SVPs...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-17",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-17"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-base-is-under-attack/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-base-is-under-attack/",
      "title": "The Base Is Under Attack",
      "summary": "Listen to people talk about InfoSec these days — the conferences, the trade press, the vendor decks, the Slack threads — and you'll hear ...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-17",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-17"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/who-gets-to-be-a-developer/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/who-gets-to-be-a-developer/",
      "title": "Who Gets to Be a Developer",
      "summary": "The conversation about who belongs in software development has always had a weirdly exclusionary vibe to it. Not always loud. Not always ...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-15",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-15"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/meet-the-smart-freeway/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/meet-the-smart-freeway/",
      "title": "Meet the Smart Freeway: It Tells You to Slow Down",
      "summary": "California's first \"smart freeway\" cost $33 million for eight miles. It's a traffic light and a suggestion.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-15",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-15"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-scapegoat/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-scapegoat/",
      "title": "The Scapegoat",
      "summary": "Zack Giacomellihttps://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71571068/bmw-dealership-trade-in-offer-accidentally-made-by-ai/ wanted to sell his 2021...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-12",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-12"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/every-agent-key-is-a-naked-call/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/every-agent-key-is-a-naked-call/",
      "title": "Every Agent Key Is a Naked Call",
      "summary": "In May, an AI agent tried to join  — a hobbyist network where engineers practice BGP and DNS routing for fun.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-12",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-12"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/your-permissions-model-was-built-for-humans/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/your-permissions-model-was-built-for-humans/",
      "title": "Your Permissions Model Was Built for Humans",
      "summary": "Everyone setting up OpenClaw and Cursor and Windsurf and whatever's next — they're connecting agents to their GitHub, their AWS, their ev...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-11",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-11"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/your-ai-agent-shouldnt-be-you/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/your-ai-agent-shouldnt-be-you/",
      "title": "Your AI Agent Shouldn't Be You",
      "summary": "Why giving agents your credentials is the next major security disaster.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-11",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-11"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-subsidy-ends/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-subsidy-ends/",
      "title": "The Subsidy Ends",
      "summary": "The day is approaching when the subsidized AI era ends. It hasn't happened yet. But the signals are already visible if you're willing to ...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-11",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-11"
    },
    
    {
      "id": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-headcount-delusion/",
      "url": "https://theconditionset.com/blog/the-headcount-delusion/",
      "title": "The Headcount Delusion",
      "summary": "There's a new kind of pitch making its way through boardrooms, and it goes something like this: stop thinking about headcount and start t...",
      "date_published": "2026-06-11",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-11"
    }
    
  ]
}