Rogue agents spamming a dormant German wiki, an AI jobs boom that has yet to eat anyone, and the soon to be lost art of writing code.
The AI Hackers Continue
It happened again… this time OpenAI’s rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against
– Simon Willison, 4 September 2026.
Yes:
Going forward, it cannot be up to OpenAI or other labs to decide whether to disclose events like this. Disclosures of rogue AI activity need to be mandatory.
But:
Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
However:
This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.
– Jakub Pachocki, 6 September 2026. Same essay.
Understandably:
Every conversation that I’m in the past couple months around Mythos has been scared – people were scared out of their minds. Every CISO, every executive, because it was so powerful. When you get into the circles of technologists, this was a big deal, because it was a seminal moment. It was almost like a ChatGPT moment for security.
– John Furrier, theCUBE on theCUBE, Aug 31, 2026
Meanwhile:
the root of anti-ai sentiment was grown from the constant, egregious violation of consent so my judgement of these situations are always going to be framed around consent and i encourage more devs to do the same especially if they are using ai to assist in their coding
– jenn schiffer, 6 September 2026.
The jobs apocalypse, postponed
Add it all up, and The Economist estimates that ai has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. That easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 lay-offs attributed to ai since mid-2023, and appears more than enough to offset weaker hiring in many back-office roles.
– The Economist, 4 September 2026.
Tech sector hiring contracted by about 14,700 workers in August, according to CompTIA analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data published Friday.
By contrast, companies across the economy added 86,000 tech workers to their ranks last month.
– Roberto Torres, 8 September 2026.
Healthcare demand is elastic, so cheaper/faster scan reading creates more scans, and radiologists do more than interpret images. What many people fail to consider is AI automating tasks is not the same as eliminating the job
– Dare Obasanjo, 6 September 2026.
We need to work on tight regulations, laws that protect human work, protecting living standards, and continuing to fight the climate crisis. But AI in coding will never go away at this point, like how LLMs applied to machine translation have been doing just fine for ~10 years on sites like DeepL.
– Emily Hunt, 6 September 2026.
The soon to be lost art of writing code
1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend
– The New Stack, 4 September 2026, quoting a customer in a piece on Coder and SpaceXAI.
We should have already seen a software quality crisis at this point if it were something that we were facing.
– Michael Paulauski, 6 September 2026.
Elsewhere
Just fucking rename everywhere America. Oh so you want to get to America? Yeah it’s over there, turn left at America and then right at America and then you’ll be at America. Dumbass.
– James Governor, 6 September 2026. On the White House amplifying a proposal to rename New Mexico “New America”.
Serious question: do I need to put images in slides for a keynote talk that is basically a lecture? Can I do it with just (mostly few) words on slides, or am I losing half the audience without giving them a pretty picture to look at (that is at best vaguely illustrative)?
– Camille Fournier, 6 September 2026.
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