In the News: August 15, 2026, Evening
A BDD maintainer shipped a release written mostly by an agent and named the rule that kept its test suite honest: never edit code and tests in the same step.
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A maintainer had an agent modernise his library, and phase-separating the test edits is what kept the suite as evidence
Cresswell published Yadda 3.0.0, a modernisation of his JavaScript BDD library: Node only, node:test, ES6 source, TypeScript definitions, and the removal of CasperJS, PhantomJS, Bower and Component. He reports that he did it with Claude…
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The "cognitive debt" result has prior art that reads it as role confusion, not neurology
Rao's essay responds to the Your brain on ChatGPT preprint, the EEG study in which undergraduates leaning on GPT-4o showed weaker alpha-beta coupling, produced similar prose, and later could not quote their own sentences. He accepts the…
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