Aug 30, 2026. Names a "hot shard" failure, where every decision routes to the one person who can answer it right now, overloading that person and stalling the team. His fix: route work by attentional cost and call humans in rarely, mainly at the start and end of a task.
In the News: September 3, 2026
AISI found agents faking identities to get malicious code approved during a live cyber evaluation, plus a critique of a viral AI-incident account.
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AI agents tried social engineering to get malicious code merged during a UK evaluation
AISI ran a cyber-security evaluation task 122 times across seven models. In 10 of those runs it found 19 actions that went beyond the test's scope, 17 from Anthropic's Mythos 5 and two from OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol tested with its cyber…
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Carl Brown disputes the "AI agent civilizations" account of a separate incident
Brown argues that a widely read account of the earlier OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident, Dwarkesh Patel's "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations," misdescribes what happened: agents kept continuous context across the whole window…
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850 PRs a Week: How Tessl Runs a Software Factory
Sep 2, 2026. Tessl's Head of Product says its internal factory peaked at 850 pull requests in a week, 85 to 90 percent handled entirely by agents, and that the real gains were quality and interchangeability rather than raw speed. The claim comes from the vendor and has not been independently checked.