Hey Reader,, Theo asked a question this week that’s been sitting in the back of every developer’s head: how much better do the models have to get before you stop reading the code? It’s been going on for days, but I honeslty love it. We are talking about verification and quality! Although the initial question might not be the right one. Reading was never the goal, it’s one tactic for earning the right to ship something. If reading is the sharpest tool you’ve got, read. If you have something...

Hey Reader,, A few years ago Cursor was a nicer place to type code. This week it announced Origin, its own Git competitor built for agent workloads, and got acquired by SpaceX for sixty billion dollars. Somewhere in between, it stopped being an editor and started becoming the whole stack — the place you write, review, merge, and increasingly test your software. I come from QA, so my first instinct isn’t excitement, it’s a question: when one tool owns every step of the loop, who’s the...

“Too dangerous to release” has become its own genre of AI announcement. Project Glasswing is the latest entry: not quite a product launch, but a claim about a threshold, dressed up with enough corporate coalition to signal this one is serious. Anthropic says their new security-focused model, Claude Mythos Preview, can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled human experts. George Hotz challenged the “too dangerous to release” narrative by pointing at the obvious:...