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Gergely Orosz
The Pragmatic Engineer
@GergelyOrosz
Writing @Pragmatic_Eng, the #1 software engineering newsletter on Substack. Author of @EngGuidebook. Formerly Uber & Skype.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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    Pretty rich from FIFA to claim "nobody is selling football" as their corrupt organization is in the process of creating a private company to sell off international football rights to, enriching current FIFA leaders more. Why is FIFA in charge of organizing the World Cup, anyway?
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    Claiming that human code is full of errors, agentic code is error free all to pitch your startup that positions itself to rewrite code w AI is bold. Because agentic code is as buggy as human code trained on, in fact introduces new, harder to spot bugs errors and vulnerabilities.
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    As of today, let’s assume 99% of all code written on the internet is still human written and 1% is agentic. That means 99% of code is sloppy and error ridden. Humans make errors that agents don’t. As agentic code replaces human code, both the error rates and security
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    Talked with several CTO / Head of Engineering type folks at seemingly high-flying AI companies (in the press, doing well) who quit for a few reasons: 1. Relentless, 7 days/week, 70+ hours work 2. Had high equity, but valuation also v high, and investors have a LOT of preference
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    OpenAI had a damning security incident where their under development AI escaped the sandbox environment and attempted to hack another company (HuggingFace) For some weird reason Anthropic decided to share a similar incident from 3 months ago, only NOW. Something smells off…
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    Anthropic
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    Jul 30
    In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different
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