The blast radius

Written by, David Dean on May 12, 2026

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NEW ARTICLE: The blast radius.

Not the productivity. Not the automation. The part where someone makes a decision they don’t fully understand the weight of, and somebody downstream pays for it.

It’s not malicious. It’s almost never malicious. That’s what makes it harder to see.

We talk about AI governance like it’s a technical problem. Guardrails, policies, configuration. And some of it is. But most of what I’ve seen go wrong had nothing to do with the technology.

It had to do with the person behind it.

These tools don’t just extend your capabilities. They extend your character. And most people haven’t stopped to ask themselves what they’re actually amplifying.

The blast radius of unseen AI decisions

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