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Bill Hunt – No AI Ethical License

Lately, Ive been increasingly frustrated with the open source community, and I no longer believe that open source for open sources sake is inherently good. In too many cases, critical libraries that hold up the entire computing ecosystem are thanklessly supported by unpaid volunteers, while megacorporations profit from this work...

Civic Innovations – Infrastructure as Code for AI: The Rapid Evolution of Agent Instructions

Over the past year, weve seen the world of AI coding agents evolve at a pace that seems crazy fast. A process that started as simple markdown files to guide AI assistants has rapidly matured into sophisticated orchestration frameworks. It’s a transformation that took infrastructure automation roughly a decade –...

Civic Innovations – Maybe We Shouldn’t Call Them AI “Agents”

Beware of pretty faces that you find. A pretty face can hide an evil mind. Johnny Rivers, Secret Agent Man As artificial intelligence capabilities expand into government service delivery, its worth pausing to think carefully about the language were using. The terms agentic services and agentic AI have gained significant...

Civic Innovations – Building the Foundations for the AI Era

We’re living through another one of those moments. The kind where the infrastructure being built today will shape how we work, communicate, and interact with technology for decades to come. But unlike the dot-com boom or the mobile revolution, this moment is harder to see clearly. It’s happening in the...

Jon Camfield – A digital go-bag

Ive been thinking a lot about a digital go bag concept, now that go-bags are in the public narrative. What would it look like? What use cases would it focus on? Real life go-bags are generally focused on getting you able to get to a safe place, with usually about...

Civic Innovations – AI Agents aren’t as radical as they sound

When we talk about AI agents handling government services, it can feel totally far-fetched and radically new, like something from a distant future. But delegation of government services is already happening all around us. People routinely delegate high-stakes government interactions to: Tax preparers for filing returns Immigration attorneys for visa...

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