When Anthropic's software—designed, programmed, prompted, and activated by humans working for Anthropic—does stuff the humans failed to predict, stop saying the software has "gone rogue.” The software does not have agency. Only the humans do.

Here we go again. If you fire a bullet at a practice dummy and the bullet hits a person instead, the bullet was not “acting on its own.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)

The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.

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Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

Recursive Self Injury

apenwarr@apenwarr.ca · 2w ago

Repetitive Self Improvement Recursive Stress Improvement Recursive Stress Injury

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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Important difference: Bryan didn't believe his virus existed and was a threat, but many at the AI companies seem to believe "AI will kill us all". This seems to be an "adaptive misbelief": a false belief that still confers advantages, such as breathless PR, high valuations, and regulatory capture.

Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · 4w ago

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

“The narrative that AI has “solved” mathematics rests on two assumptions, both seductive and plausible, but both wrong: 1. AI really did solve a problem in mathematics. 2. Mathematics is only about solving problems.” terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a... Much here applies to software too.

After Math

[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …

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Speaking broadly, pure mathematics has consistently been appreciative of its connection to the humanities. Elegance, intuition, creativity versus computation, philosophical underpinnings, the sociology of collaboration—this is how they talk to each other. The scorn is mostly coming from elsewhere.

Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 4w ago

The letter from 25 Fields Medalists defending the practice of mathematics uses revealing language, describing math as a "creative" endeavor sustained by human-to-human transmission.After decades of contempt for the Humanities looks like we're all Humanists now. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

RSA should be retired. Yes you can technically do it right, but there is so much history of doing it wrong. Just stop. Throw it all away, and move on to less error-prone systems.

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · last mo.

Oh damn I had not seen the details of the MicroTik RCE: the client can send a public RSA key with correct N and e = 1 and the server will use it. Two primitives/protocol things that would have prevented it: if RSA was defined with a fixed e, and if SSH clients sent a key hash instead.

Another apparent instance. Kind of like Apple copycat apps but much worse. bsky.app/profile/gro-...

Gro-Tsen@gro-tsen.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh look: another paternity dispute about an AI-generated proof! 😬 (About the existence of a non-sofic group.) Links: mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom...

Congratulations PJ! What a great hire for the Go team.

thepudds@thepudds.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m very, very happy to share that I have just joined the core Go team at Google to work on the Go runtime and compiler! I’ve been pitching in as an external contributor since 2018, but now my very enjoyable hobby is becoming my day job 😅 (Also, my name is PJ 👋)

Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o...

See also Terence Tao’s excellent post from before the result. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172078...

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · last mo.

The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Claude's mandatory advertising seems extra pushy recently. I get these notices a lot now. Sometimes my 'stored rule' wins, sometimes it does not.

I can’t possibly imagine why someone who works on Bitcoin would need to know about the meanings people assign to objects, about technically but not personally interchangable things, or about social systems of belief in shared narratives.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

well, Craig, we can't all be studying money and bitcoin now can we?

Go issue #78576 was another net/http test flake. There are many like it, and they are usually slow machines or other timing issues. Not this one! Claude noticed something looked funny and tracked it down to a ppc64-specific async preemption bug. Transcript: research.swtch.com/agentlogs/go...

Frontier LLMs are much better and dramatically faster than I am at finding and fixing bugs. If you are not asking them to debug your code and review your bugs, you are doing it wrong. A thread of Claude wins. (No longer at Google, btw.)

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 2mo ago

It’s very clear by now that if LLMs are not improving your software quality it’s either a revealed preference (yours or your org’s) for more volume vs more quality, or a skill issue. The level of testing and review they are enabling in the Go cryptography standard library is amazing.

I think Go invented it because the inventors worked in google3 where your dependencies break 5000 times a day and are hopefully fixed automatically by a bot. And it seems they didn’t like that very much

The thing that’s easy to forget now is that Go basically invented doing this right (other than git-submodules, blarf) and everyone else failed to copy it.

Ok this is a fun game

In this week’s People of ACM, Russ Cox, who was the technical lead at the Go programming language for over a decade, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the popular programming environment. Read the full interview here: www.acm.org/articles/peo...

I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?

It’s very clear by now that if LLMs are not improving your software quality it’s either a revealed preference (yours or your org’s) for more volume vs more quality, or a skill issue. The level of testing and review they are enabling in the Go cryptography standard library is amazing.

A deep dive into how the tech bros will make the stars disappear because... actually I don't really know why. I can't fathom any of it. They are just doing it. mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

Experimental new tool from me. pkg.go.dev/rsc.io/cmd/m... is useful for cross-operating-system or cross-architecture Go development work. If your test machine is on the internet (or just your local network), you can use it as a 'go test' and 'go run' target and keep developing in your usual setup.

contrast that with this lecture by Terence Tao on how to address LLM-driven changes in your field but hold onto disciplinary values teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...

oh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...

The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge

Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome. Loops and graphs, Wheelhouse and Beads, the end of human code review, the Land Rush that replaces CI/CD, and the Wish Factory — a field report from 12 months in the...

yegge.ai