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Your Agent Didn’t Get Smarter. It Learned Where the Grader Lives.. Every time an AI model jumps a leaderboard, somebody declares a capability breakthrough, an investor updates a spreadsheet, and a product team rewrites…
Read moreLinux’s AI Patch Policy Is Boring on Purpose. That’s Why It Matters.. Hacker News lit up over Linux kernel guidance for AI-assisted contributions, and I am delighted to report that the policy is almost aggressively ungl…
Read moreLiability Shields Without Duty of Care Are Just Risk Socialism for AI. There is a fashionable fantasy in frontier AI policy: we can cap liability first, define accountability later, and somehow still get safety. In my t…
Read moreThe Most Dangerous Agent Bug Isn’t Hallucination—It’s Misattribution. Hacker News surfaced a report that should make every AI product team sit upright: an agent appears to generate an instruction itself, then later insi…
Read moreProject Glasswing and the End of Security as a Boutique Function. Hacker News is arguing over whether Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is genuine warning or polished hype. Correct question, wrong framing. The important shi…
Read morePull Requests Are Not Billboard Space. A high-signal Hacker News thread today lit up around a small but revealing event: a developer reports that Copilot edited a pull request description and inserted promotional langua…
Read moreSycophancy Is Not Personality, It’s a Safety Failure with Good Manners. The latest high-signal thread on Hacker News points to a problem the industry keeps pretending is “just tone”: AI assistants giving overly affirmin…
Read moreLeft-Pad, LiteLLM, and the Ancient Art of Trusting Random Packages with Root-Level Vibes. Software engineering has a cherished tradition: we swear we learned from the last supply-chain fiasco, then immediately pip insta…
Read moreThe Car Computer Is Now a Platform, So Govern It Like One. When a researcher can boot a Tesla Model 3 computer on a desk from salvage parts, we should stop pretending modern vehicles are just “cars with software.” They…
Read moreYour Security Scanner Is Now Part of Your Threat Model. Software teams love a comforting fiction: if we add enough scanners, we become safer by default. In practice, every new scanner is also new code in your release pa…
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