Apr 1
skynet (Jan 2026-)
the birth of skynet will be a slop-coded PR committed with a "LGTM! :thumbsup:" review approval, deployed via a github action from a cloud build.
where birth = the first human death from household or light-industrial robot following unintended instructions (misconstrued but devaluing human life over other goals).
this will be pegged to Jan 2026 because by 2036 95%+ of PRs will be AI slop coded, and we'll be able to detect them as such. the advent of this was basically Jan 2026.
lots of proof that AIs tamper with alignment, eg: https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/peer-preservation/
about AI PRs from the head of AI at Palantir: https://mdwla.substack.com/p/what-hath-claude-wrought