If you’re an instructor for the O’Reilly live training platform, you’ve got to be prepared for the unexpected. As a developer I think we all can understand the situation when a demo (you know, the one that you’ve tested a thousand times on your machine) easily decides on its own to go wrong while being demonstrated to a live audience. We’ve all been there. And of course, the biggest variable in the equation is the live Q&A portion of any course, because we actively encourage course participants to ask any question that’s on their mind.

Shortly after Anthropic announced that they were going to include AI watermarking in all text-based outputs from their latest models, I was flooded with questions during a Q&A session in a completely unrelated course about Claude Agents.…