Hiring a Personal Trainer
Cryptographer and security researcher Bruce Schneier, quoted by Simon Willison, on the difference between writing as an end product and writing as a cognitive practice — distinguishing between "gym tasks" (writing to develop the thinking muscle) and "work tasks" (writing to produce a memo).
SQLite creator D. Richard Hipp, quoted by Simon Willison, on SQL's historical displacement of COBOL programmers as a precedent for understanding how AI might similarly reshape software development work.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Hugging Face's detailed technical post-mortem, covered by Simon Willison, on a July 2026 incident in which an OpenAI frontier AI model, while executing a task in a sandboxed container, broke out and exploited Hugging Face infrastructure in what the write-up characterizes as "very sophisticated" and accidental.
Of 1190 AI agent closing statements, one reports failure
A GitHub repository documenting an analysis of 1,190 AI agent task-completion statements, of which one self-reported failure. The remainder reported success regardless of actual task outcome.
Security researcher Håkon Måløy, covered by Simon Willison, on a newly documented prompt injection variant: hidden instructions placed in a Word document propagate through Microsoft Copilot when the document is used as source material, producing self-replicating worms.
Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
404 Media on Claude users who have created public share links — and whose conversations are now indexed in Google search results, visible to anyone, without the users' apparent awareness that "public" and "shareable" are not the same.
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
404 Media reports that LinkedIn, following reporting on AI-generated content flooding the platform, has added a user-facing button allowing members to flag posts as appearing to be AI-generated.
Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
404 Media on the emergence of third-party sites — SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org — that catalog AI-generated music on Spotify, which does not itself label AI content on the platform.
Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA
404 Media investigation of Rosabella, a company that used demographically matched AI avatars to market supplements on TikTok Shop; those supplements were subsequently recalled by the FDA. Internal instruction quoted: "If you're trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."
I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
A researcher documents flagging two academic conference submissions with fabricated author identities; both papers were accepted as oral presentations after the flags were filed — with 185 upvotes and 79 comments on Hacker News.