Correction: Please ignore this morning's duplicate emails

You probably noticed two unexpected Sci-Fi Saturday emails in your inbox this morning. Sorry about that.

An automated system that helps prepare our Saturday editions malfunctioned and published two unreviewed, auto-generated posts, then sent both as newsletters before anyone caught it. Neither was the edition we had planned.

This has been a rough week for errors. I read everything that gets published, but for the pipeline auto-generated pieces that review happens after the fact, a few hours later. After this week, I realize that gives too much trust to probabilistic systems that are prone to context and memory issues when executing prompts — even when you give them skills, checklists, and guardrails.

New policy: any weekly edition will get human review before posting. The Signal and The Noise will still be auto-generated for now, as I want to learn how to improve these agent systems to be resilient over time. But the weeklies need a human in the loop before they hit your inbox.

Sorry for the email blasts. Hopefully next week will go smoother.

The real Sci-Fi Saturday ("License to Operate," about the 007 model for human-AI teams) is coming later today.