An imperfect drink with a perfect story. My reflections from Black Hat USA 2026 | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — An Audio Newsletter by Marco Ciappelli

On day two we decided to go record our recap at the Black Hat bar. We got there too late to get a drink. The expo floor was closing, and the bartender must have had better things to do. Or another bar to tend, somewhere in a city that has more bars than it has hours. They called it a bar. At that time of the afternoon it was a counter with nobody behind it. Which is when I started thinking about the one bartender who would still have been standing there. An agentic AI one.