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Dee Why, New South Wales
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The Australian Government claims that this constitutes a unique risk. It does not.
The same portal that OpenAI is alleged to have scraped has been publicly accessible and independently scraped by members of the public for more than a year.
This script was also posted on LinkedIn but it has been subsequently taken down.
It fits the bill exactly.
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Breaking: Anthony Albanese rings up Sam Altman to express "severe concern" after finding out an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal in June. Richard Marles says while the impact was "minor" it is a "warning in terms of what can happen"
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I made a video about my own product that tries to talk you out of buying it.
No Access import. No VBA. No cloud sync. No role-based permissions. Not a multi-user server.
If those are dealbreakers, you've just saved a fortnight.
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Citations weren't a feature request to me. They were the point.
If the answer says your policy allows something, you should be able to click through and read the paragraph yourself.
And when the answer isn't in your documents, it's built to say so.
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There's a gap a lot of good work falls into.
Too big for a spreadsheet. Nowhere near big enough to justify a database server, a developer, and six months.
Almost nothing is built for that gap. That's the one I went after.
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The record says the assessment was completed.
The assessment itself is in someone's downloads folder. Probably.
So I made attachments live inside the project. The evidence travels with the claim.
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Some mornings you don't need a report.
You need to know, in about four seconds, whether today is fine.
Different question, different tool. So I built a dashboard and a report builder, not one thing pretending to be both.
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An AI answer you can't trace is just a confident guess.
So I made Ask AI list every lookup it made, above the answer.
Check the path, not just the number. Uses the provider you configure, with your own key.
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The hardest part of a new project isn't the hard part.
It's the blank file, and knowing exactly how long the boring bit takes.
That's the entire reason I put an AI builder in here. It gets you off the blank page. You bring your own key.
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"Can it import my Access database?"
No. It can't import Access files and it doesn't run VBA.
If you depend on either, this isn't your tool. I'd rather tell you that now than after you've rebuilt something.
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Put a BPA1 Personal file in a synced folder and you get one editor at a time, with read-only followers and visible conflict choices.
That is check-out sharing.
It is not simultaneous multi-user editing, and I'm not going to call it that.
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An app file should not quietly become a bag of credentials.
So your AI key stays on your machine, outside the project. Share the app, the key doesn't travel.
You configure the provider with your own key. The project holds a reference. I never wanted it holding the secret.
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I shipped the guides inside the app, and it wasn't a nice-to-have.
It's ten at night, you're one step from finished, and you've forgotten how the trigger works.
Nobody wants to go looking for a forum at that point.
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The AI in BPA1 Personal can read your records and build you a query.
It cannot update or delete existing records, drop a table, or run write SQL.
Read access and build access. Not the ability to rewrite your history. I drew that line on purpose.
(Your provider, your key.)
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Whoever fills in your form is not going to read your manual.
They're going to look at it for four seconds and decide whether this is worth their evening.
I designed the form builder for that person. They're the whole system.
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There's a note stuck to your monitor. It's been there since March.
"New thing arrives → check this → export that → tell someone."
That's not a reminder. That's a workflow nobody ever wrote down properly.
I built automations for that note.
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Nobody reads a database.
They read the summary somebody stayed late to type out of it.
That's the actual job. So I built the generating instead of the retyping.
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Everyone has had the import that said "success".
Then three weeks later somebody asks where row 412 went.
So I made failed rows write out to their own file, with the reason next to each. An import you can't audit isn't finished.
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Ask most software where your data actually lives and you get a shrug and a login page.
So I made a BPA1 Personal app one file. SQLite, plus readable definitions for everything you built.
Copy it. Back it up. It's a document, because it is one.
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Four spellings of the same customer's name in one sheet.
All four slightly wrong. None of them the real one.
That's not a typing problem. It's a structure problem. I've watched careful people lose to it for years.
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