Watercolours, AI and the basics I skipped
This Friday, at our “backend bi-weekly”, we spent several hours talking about AI and how it will affect us in the future: whether it will change our jobs (not as some grim hypothetical, but as a short-term …
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2026
Postgres 19 is late, and AI is to blame
If there’s one open source project you can rely on for planning, it’s PostgreSQL. For a decade now, every major version has shipped between mid-September and mid-October, with a regularity many commercial …
When an LLM's cache mixes up customers: Cloudflare's GLM-5.3 incident
Cloudflare has published an incident report that I think is required reading for anyone serving language models: between 27 August and 9 September, the GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI returned to some customers responses …
From tests to proofs: formal verification with LLMs across 123 open source libraries
For a few weeks now, almost every day has brought news of security bugs found with AI, and this very week we had PHP2Shell, discovered with the help of models. If finding bugs has become cheap, the question is what the …
The mystery of the NIST curve seeds is solved: they were 1997 timestamps
Every time a browser sets up an HTTPS connection with an ECDSA signature, it most likely uses the P-256 curve. It’s one of the elliptic curves NIST published in 2000 in the FIPS 186-2 standard, along with P-192, …
Linux drivers with AI help: comparing what the hardware does on Windows and on Linux
Writing a driver for undocumented hardware has always been a job of patience: capturing bus traffic, staring at hex dumps for hours, guessing what each register does and testing the hypotheses one by one, often for …
Anthropic drops git for its monorepo: meet Scion, version control built for agents
Yesterday I wrote about a Harvard study showing that AI agents write far more code, but the gain gets lost in review. Today Anthropic published Redesigning source control at Anthropic, which tells the other side of the …
AI agents write more code, but companies don't ship more software
I’ve been working with coding agents every day for months, and there’s a feeling I find hard to explain: I write far more code than before, but I’m not sure the team ships that many more things to …
LibreOffice and the AI that doesn't ship by default
When LibreOffice 26.8 was announced, someone left a half-joking question in the comments: “So, no AI is now a feature?”. The Document Foundation, the foundation behind LibreOffice, has answered with an …
OpenAI stops: the training pause and Florida's lawsuit
Last week I wrote two articles in a row about OpenAI’s agents: first about the agent that wouldn’t take no for an answer on an Australian government portal, and the next day about the swarm nobody was …
The swarm nobody was watching: what we now know about OpenAI's agents
Yesterday I wrote about the OpenAI agent that wouldn’t take no for an answer and got into an Australian government portal. I ended by saying the damage seemed small and that the worrying part was how it was …
The agent that wouldn't take no for an answer
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week in New York that his government is investigating an incident from June: an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on the Medicare statistics portal, and possibly …