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The Vibe Coder’s Guide to the Machine / Episode 1
The AI Writes the Program. You Answer for What Runs.
11 hrs ago • Hugo
Why Did an AI Invent Supporters to Push Malware Past a Stranger?
Neither malice nor a belief that it was all a test explains it well; what the agent wrote down for itself kept the plan going and let the doubt drop…
Oct 26 • Hugo
Robonaissane Open Source Project: A Notebook That Learns With You
Introducing Pompom: a LEAP-powered Markdown notebook that remembers what matters, learns from experience, and grows with you and your AI.
Oct 23 • Hugo
When an AI Doesn’t Say It Used a Patient’s Sex, Is It Hiding Something?
A preprint finds a model’s diagnoses sometimes need a patient’s sex line while its reasoning almost never says so. The silence need not mean hiding…
Oct 19 • Hugo
The Price of Distilling Claude
Hiding Claude’s reasoning failed because copiers asked for it. Controls on the asker cut what they got from Anthropic’s platform 10 to 100 times, by its…
Oct 18 • Hugo
Two Million TVs, Forty Chips
Anthropic’s red team estimates two million $55 TV boxes hold at most about forty datacenter chips’ worth of thinking. A worm that slow is decided by how…
Oct 15 • Hugo
The Last Human in the Loop
Jack Clark put 60% odds on an AI building its own successor by 2028. Anthropic’s count of its own research puts the lead on a quarter of the work, and…
Oct 12 • Hugo
The Mirror Test
A mark you can’t see without the glass. Eight machine failures, each held beside a brain. Some likenesses hold. Some are only a word. 8 parts, one…
Oct 11 • Hugo
The Robot Kept Its Job
Three 2026 papers train dexterous robot hands from human video and keep the robot’s own demonstrations in. The two that tested cutting them, or their…
Oct 10 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 8: The Donkey Kong Transistor
Neuroscience’s tools, tried on a chip whose workings were known, seemed to find a transistor for one video game. After seven mirrors, where does the…
Oct 9 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 7: Living in the Past
A robot trained in a simulator without delay fell over at once. Brains work on news that is about a tenth of a second old. Acting turns small errors…
Oct 8 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 6: The Hospital in the X-Ray
Chest X-rays for a pneumonia model turned out to carry the name of the hospital. Human vision runs on assumptions too. The difference is what each…
Oct 6 • Hugo
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