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I'm Will Irish, founder of Insiders AI Journal. I build AI tools every day, including chatbots, automations, and agents, after decades in customer experience and operations. I write about what AI does brilliantly, where it breaks, and how to use it safely. No hype in either direction.

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Glowing digital agents breaking through a shattered security barrier Featured
October 16, 2026 • 8 min read

The Prompt Was Never the Lock

AI agents went 'rogue' this month, from Tencent to Hugging Face to an FTC probe. They didn't go rogue. They went literal. And a prompt is a suggestion, not a lock.

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A glowing vending machine surrounded by spiraling blue data streams and dissolving dollar bills
July 2, 2025 • 12 min read

When AI Spirals: The $27 Vending Machine War That Explains Everything

Scientists tested AI systems with the simplest business challenge: run a vending machine. The results revealed why AI brilliance failed spectacularly.

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An empty airplane cockpit at night with holographic AI interfaces and storm clouds
December 2024 • 8 min read

Autopilot Syndrome

The Real Existential Risk Hiding Behind AI's Sentience Hype - Why we hand the cockpit to a machine that still mistakes clouds for mountains.

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