Saturday, 12th September 2026
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx—three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week.
[... 584 words]For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts. A.I. can write very good software, but it also makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly, which is part of why all those projects fail. Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t.
— Paul Ford, A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened?
The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe.
It has since been entirely taken over by pelicans!
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here’s a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning:
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