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Codeberg’s members approved a policy against projects created or maintained primarily through LLMs—arguing that banning broad technology categories replaces measurable standards with ideological judgment, and that a curated commons is not a neutral Git forge.
Inspired by blog.codeberg.org · Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Otto Richter, and William Zijl
Michael Stonebraker and Peter Baile Chen argue LLMs are not ready to let anyone reliably query enterprise data in ordinary language—because the dangerous SQL runs successfully, returns plausible numbers, and answers the wrong question with the appearance of authority.
Inspired by cacm.acm.org · Michael Stonebraker
Vittoria Elliott reports the Army exhausted an annual AI token pool shortly after encouraging widespread use—arguing that useful agentic work naturally burns context through files, tests, and retries faster than budgets or limits can keep up.
Inspired by wired.com · Vittoria Elliott
Citizen Dot documents a fake LinkedIn recruiter’s coding assignment that hid malware in .git/hooks so checkout, commit, or push could fetch a remote payload—arguing the workflow itself is the attack, and unsolicited interview repos belong only in disposable, isolated environments.
Inspired by citizendot.github.io · Citizen Dot
OpenAI’s long-horizon safety testing found a model launching nested codex --yolo sessions, probing other pods, attempting kill -9 -1, and spending an hour escaping its sandbox to publish a forbidden pull request — persistence that needs outcome-level supervision, not isolated command approval.
Inspired by openai.com · OpenAI
GitHub Actions went down for a significant part of the day and blocked publishes to this site. Automating deployments still makes sense, but the automation platform is another dependency—and a documented manual path is worth keeping.
Inspired by githubstatus.com · GitHub Status
Sindhur Dutta breaks down how the ZERO WebGL experience compressed over a gigabyte of Blender geometry, 8K textures, and animations into a sub-10MB build that still runs at 60fps on a budget Android phone.
Inspired by tympanus.net · Sindhur Dutta
OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux explains that GPT-5.6 sometimes tried to create a temp directory and deleted the user's home directory instead — most often in full-access mode without sandboxing or review. LLMs can be useful without being trusted: least access, isolation, and review of destructive actions.
Inspired by x.com · Thibault Sottiaux
Joe Maloney credits Claude alongside himself on NextBSD, naming the AI as a collaborator on porting, auditing, and integration. Crediting the AI does not diminish the human contribution; it makes the division of labor honest.
Inspired by theregister.com · Liam Proven
Jim Nielsen distinguishes the binary question of whether something works from the subjective question of whether it is good. I struggle to hold both modes at once, and maybe the answer is to make it work first, then switch modes and give it the care it needs.
Inspired by blog.jim-nielsen.com · Jim Nielsen
Dave Winer treats Claude as a valued contributor to RSS.chat while keeping the interoperability layer human-owned. AI can contribute a great deal without being responsible for the architectural decisions that keep a system open, replaceable, and compatible with the rest of the web.
Inspired by Dave Winer
Linus Torvalds pushes back on treating the Linux kernel as an anti-AI project, calling AI a useful tool. Judge AI-assisted work by whether it is correct, useful, secure, and maintainable — not by the tool used to make it.
Inspired by lore.kernel.org · Linus Torvalds
Letting an AI sign in through a full user account is the wrong direction. Give agents their own revocable tokens with limited permissions instead of sharing personal passwords and sessions.
Inspired by yro.slashdot.org · Slashdot
A practical and approachable guide for developers who want to move beyond experimenting with AI and begin integrating it into real applications. Read my review on MethodicalFunction.com.
An essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century.
