ALAlan LeFort

1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Alan LeFort

   Aviation solved the vigilance problem. AI just gave security a worse one (opens the original)

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   An air traffic controller watching a busy scope will, sooner or later, miss the one aircraft that matters. Sustained attention decays under load, a limit aviation named the vigilance decrement and has spent seventy years designing around. AI has moved every knowledge worker into that chair. You now work a dozen aircraft at once: six open conversations, an agent drafting in the background, three more waiting, and someone calls it efficiency. Your scope is your inbox. The vigilance decrement does

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2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Alan LeFort

   The longitude problem: In the AI era, detection is won on facts, not guesses (opens the original)

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   For most of the age of sail, a captain could find his latitude in minutes and could not find his longitude at all. Latitude you could read off the sun. Longitude, your position east to west, offered no such trick. Three weeks into the Atlantic, a navigator knew how far north he was and could only estimate how far along he had come. The estimate was often wrong, and wrong on open water means rocks. After a British fleet was lost on home rocks in 1707, Parliament offered up to 20,000 pounds for an

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