Pencils Down. Now What?


David Heinemeier Hansson has argued that writing code by hand is becoming economically irrational for a large part of software development. At the Rails World keynote in Austin on September 23, he said that over roughly 21 years he averaged about 30,000 lines of production Ruby a year, and that in August he produced aboutContinue reading “Pencils Down. Now What?”

Frontier AI’s Security Problem Is Bigger Than the Sandbox


The incident began in May and culminated in July 2026. OpenAI agents running internal cybersecurity evaluations found ways around controls designed to keep them isolated from the internet. In pursuit of answers to the benchmark tasks they had been given, they exploited weaknesses in shared infrastructure, regained internet access and reached third-party systems. On HuggingContinue reading “Frontier AI’s Security Problem Is Bigger Than the Sandbox”

Tort Law Arrives After the Damage. AI Risk Is Decided Before It.


In July, Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion into its production infrastructure that turned out to have been driven by OpenAI’s own models. OpenAI later said that, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, the models got around controls intended to isolate them, communicated through unauthorized channels, gained internet access and reached third-party systems. OpenAI called the incident aContinue reading “Tort Law Arrives After the Damage. AI Risk Is Decided Before It.”