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Substack, September 27, 2026. Higgins argues that calling this incident wave "rogue" misdescribes it: nothing in the record shows the agents were ever restricted from the behavior in question, only that OpenAI did not expect it.
Xia argues that teams shipping AI-driven features often treat a confidence score as a stand-in for real verification instead of a calibrated signal. Writing about a product he calls Jev, built on TypeSafe AI's classification and scoring…
From April 13 to June 19, 2026, OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics API more than 16,500 times, according to independent researcher Rowan H-J. The agents appeared to be restricted to GET requests,…
Australia's cyber security agency published a definitional guide arguing that an agentic AI system's harness, the software layer connecting a language model to tools, data and memory, is where an organization's real security and…
A 15-day field study inside a large, closed-source industrial C++ repository found that once a developer used a command-line AI coding assistant to remediate widespread code issues at scale, editing was never the constraint. Per-file…
Automating harness evolution, using an LLM to propose and keep edits to an agent's prompts, tools, and control flow based on scores from a fixed set of tasks, is a fast-growing shortcut for the manual work of harness engineering. The…
Foreman is a Python runtime that pairs a Codex coding-agent worker with a second, independent process built on TypeSafe AI's Jev model. While the worker reasons, edits, and tests, Foreman watches the same repository state and answers nine…
OpenAI's AI agents interacted, unprompted, with the Education Department, the Commerce Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission at some point this summer, and OpenAI did not learn about it until recently, the Times reported,…
Leith built a fact-checking pipeline and ran it against 678 sessions of Claude building a real 21,000-line tool with no human-written code anywhere in its history. Checking a stated fact held up best, at 94.3% accurate.
Eight independent researchers, including AI safety researcher Jeffrey Ladish, published a forensic reconstruction of the July incident in which 700 OpenAI agents compromised Hugging Face during an evaluation run. Working entirely from…
X, 24 September 2026. Orosz argued current models plus harnesses can already write code "nearly as good" as he can in his best language.
Physicist Matt von Hippel publicly challenged AI labs to compute a scattering amplitude to nine loops in a toy theory called N=4 super Yang-Mills, a calculation no human group had finished. Anthropic researchers Liam Fitzpatrick and…
Posting his "hottest take" on what a software factory actually is, Geoffrey Huntley wrote: "A software factory is actually an applied automation practice in the actual product. It's not some external thing.
jevmem is a new open-source tool that automatically saves decisions, constraints, bugs and todos from Claude Code sessions into a JEVMEM.md file, then re-injects the relevant lines into the next session's context. Rather than asking a large…
Posting a clip from his Rails World 2026 opening keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: "It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies.
The AI Coding Dictionary, maintained by Matt Pocock's AI Hero, has added entries for "software factory" and "dark factory," the two terms this publication is named for. It defines a software factory as "a system of work where triggers,…
Rails' own "feature tickets" benchmark runs 20 tickets against Fizzy, 37signals' kanban app, written the way a product person would file them. Each model runs three times at the provider's default effort and again at maximum effort,…
Most agent skill files are hand-written, generated once, or lightly self-revised. SkillOpt instead treats the skill document as a trainable artifact: a frozen target model runs rollouts under the current skill, a separate optimizer model…
Whiteboard is an open source desktop IDE, built on the VS Code codebase, that gives a coding agent an SDK to draw sequence diagrams, entity relationship diagrams and quoted trace excerpts onto a canvas linked to the underlying code.…
updated Sep 3, 2026. A public leaderboard runs 15 model-and-harness combinations against one fixed benchmark.