Nick Hobbs

Nick Hobbs

Senior AI Engineer | Product Leader

About

My work lives in the gap between a promising ML system and one users can actually rely on what happens after launch, and sometimes before there's enough signal to know what "good" looks like. Building production ML from the ground up when needed, figuring out what quality even means when labeled data is scarce, and designing the feedback loops and measurements that most evaluation suites skip entirely. Currently a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at HubSpot, where I own quality and integration strategy for AI agent systems.

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Has an AI tool ever sent you a surprise bill?

I believe that cloud providers should make hard spending caps the default: when you hit your limit, everything stops, rather than you getting a warning email you only see after the damage.

The reason is simple: coding agents can now ship code that burns through paid APIs while you sleep.

Apple says AI agents make Full Disk Access riskier. Your own agent workflows have the same problem.

On 2 October Apple said it will make granting Full Disk Access on macOS require more explicit user action, and it named AI agents as the reason. If you let agents touch your files, that's a prompt to audit what you've already handed over.

On 2 October Apple posted a short developer news item titled "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS." It says Apple will add controls that require more explicit user action when Full Disk Access is granted, because some developers misuse it to reach sensitive data such as files, mail, messages and browsing history without the user fully understanding. The sentence I keep coming back to is this one: "As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially."

Thank you for launching UTTER IN with us, and what's coming next

Hi everyone,

Thank you for following UTTER IN during our launch. Being featured on Product Hunt meant a lot to a small team from Kuwait.

A quick recap: you say what's on your mind, three or four things in one breath, and UTTER IN turns it into separate cards for reminders, calendar events and places. Nothing is saved until you approve it. It works in English and in Arabic, including Gulf, Egyptian and Levantine dialects.

What we're working on next:

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