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on software, its development, its consequences — collected by Kevlin Henney

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What do teachers and psychologists think of classroom-based social robots? | BPS

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/what-do-teachers-and-psychologists-think-classroom-based-social-robots

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Scope Is The Steering Wheel

This stuck in my craw at the time Patrick published it but I didn’t have the energy to respond.

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Why Your Newborn Already Knows Physics (And Why LLMs Still Can't) | HackerNoon

Inside the biological tricks that let three-pound brains outlearn trillion-parameter machines — and the radical new architectures trying to

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‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history

The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’

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Short version: If X inherits from Y, then X should pass all of Y’s black box tests. I first encountered this idea at SPLASH 2021. The longer

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Episode 86: AI Panel Discussion at DDD South West 2026 // The Unhandled Exception Podcast

Software Development podcast hosted by Dan Clarke

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Assumptions weaken properties

Assume a spherical cowputer

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Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

What should we call the words that this ultramodern technology produces? For clues, a professor looks to some of the world’s earliest author

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LLMs show language does not describe reality | Elan Barenholtz » IAI TV

The meaning of words is not grounded in the world

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Michael Jackson on Optimization: Don't. Don't Yet (for experts only). Donald Knuth in Structured Programming with Goto Statements

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the monsters hiding in your algorithm

Did you know Kehlani released a fifth album?

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Single prompt breaks AI safety in 15 major language models

The GRP‑Obliteration technique reveals that even mild prompts can reshape internal safety mechanisms, raising oversight concerns as enterpri

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Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers

“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a

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How Poetry Is Diabolically Being Used In Everyday Prompts To Get AI To Do Things It Isn’t Supposed To Do

Hackers and evildoers are using adversarial poetry to jailbreak AI. The trick involves writing poems as prompts. AI safeguards can be averte

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I vibe coded web app: It was enlightening and uncomfortable

: AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that