Super Intelligence, Artificial Slowdown

Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed, and about ten days later the labs shipped new models and cut prices. Gunnar goes around the table: is slowing down a safety commitment, marketing, or a way to write the rules before regulators do? Chris explains the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which started a 24-hour clock for reporting actively exploited vulnerabilities on September 11, and what the December 2027 requirements mean for anyone shipping software into the EU. Danielle looks at Pizza Bot, AWS' open-source inbox for background agents, and asks why everything that was an agent last month is a harness now. Newcomer Ken Collins talks about building AI-native teams: role compression, budgeting for people and AI together, and the burden inversion that artificial confidence and slop grenades put on the people who actually know how things work. Burst Mode: Danielle on Aurora DSQL finally supporting foreign key constraints, more than a year after GA. Ken on Jev, TypeSafe's decision model that returns answers instead of text, and Laya, the open-weight alternative whose creator says he published the idea a year earlier. Chris asks whether AI can decide which forgotten cloud resources are safe to turn off, including an S3 bucket created on Obama's inauguration day, and Gunnar brings up AWS's new account spend limits. Gunnar closes with AWS confirming that some customer data in Bahrain and the UAE is permanently gone. Timestamps 0:00 - Cold open: super intelligence and personal check-ins 3:57 - Pacing the frontier: is "slow down" just marketing? (Gunnar Grosch) 15:00 - The EU Cyber Resilience Act starts the clock (Chris Farris) 22:53 - Pizza Bot and the harness explosion (Danielle Heberling) 28:31 - Building AI-native teams (Ken Collins) Burst Mode 38:58 - Burst Mode 39:06 - Aurora DSQL foreign key constraints (Danielle Heberling) 45:07 - Jev, Laya, and decision models (Ken Collins) 51:13 - Can AI clean up forgotten cloud resources? (Chris Farris) 55:58 - AWS permanently loses customer data in the Middle East (Gunnar Grosch) Links Pacing the frontier (CNBC) David Sacks on slowing down Labs sued over pacing AI development EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting clock EU Commission CRA reporting OpenSSF CRA ebook Pizza Bot Pizza Bot on GitHub Anthropic labor market research Microsoft ports Copilot runtime to Rust Aurora DSQL foreign key constraints Jev Laya Laya on Hacker News AWS spend limits AWS Middle East data loss (CNBC) AWS Middle East data loss (Reuters) Wildberries Architected Framework fwd:cloudsec