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September 2026 2

  1. #0035 Review stopped being the only guardrail arXiv
  2. #0034 Confident and wrong looks exactly like confident and right arXiv

August 2026 33

  1. #0033 Faster, more confident, and no more accurate Academic Radiology
  2. #0032 A few pages of markdown, and half the complexity growth arXiv
  3. #0031 Ten minutes from pull request to probe Anil Madhavapeddy
  4. #0030 The classifier blocked the cleanup, not the malware Embrace The Red
  5. #0029 Eight of eighteen models had drifted Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
  6. #0028 Somebody always waits longer Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
  7. #0027 Two percent of the runs noticed anything wrong arXiv
  8. #0026 The screenshot test caught a state bug arXiv
  9. #0025 The device you validated is not the device you are running Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
  10. #0024 The router was not the point arXiv
  11. #0023 One click, and the assistant did the rest Infosecurity Magazine
  12. #0022 Eighty-seven comments, and nobody answered the question r/vibecoding
  13. #0021 The AUC held. The specificity fell off a cliff. Annals of Medicine and Surgery
  14. #0020 The attestation was valid. That was the problem. Snyk
  15. #0019 Forge, and the number that moved GitHub
  16. #0018 39% of the score belongs to the backend arXiv
  17. #0017 Code nobody read, that you can trust anyway GitHub
  18. #0016 One hour to a prototype, a hundred to a product Mac Budkowski
  19. #0015 An ext4 driver arrived at OpenBSD with no author LWN
  20. #0014 Seven hours, $400 of tokens, 13,000 lines of Go Reco
  21. #0013 We wave through a third of the malicious requests The Register
  22. #0012 Rootly gave up on small pull requests InfoQ
  23. #0011 Spotify moved the bottleneck and said so InfoQ
  24. #0010 npm puts a human back in front of the registry InfoQ
  25. #0009 119 developers on what the habit has done to them arXiv
  26. #0008 Review is the new writing
  27. #0007 Good Vibrations: somebody studied the joy arXiv
  28. #0006 The 19% slowdown study, revisited by the people who ran it METR
  29. #0005 DORA puts a number on the tuition InfoQ
  30. #0004 Asking the model to "make it more secure" five times makes it less secure arXiv
  31. #0003 Somebody is finally counting the CVEs Infosecurity Magazine
  32. #0002 GitHub ponders a kill switch for pull requests The Register
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