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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
why code when AI exists essay

y code when ai?

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Hadley Wickham

“This week on my substack: a write up of my talk "y code when ai" (my thoughts on why knowing how to code is still relevant), along with a brief description of how I turned a video of my talk into this post. Read it at open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi... !”

Primary source tidydesign.substack.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Analysis 19d ago
AI auto mode dangerous behavior essay

Auto mode knows it's dangerous (and does it anyway)

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Hadley Wickham

“Ask a coding agent to run a curl-pipe-sh install command and it will — even if it notices the danger. I thought auto mode would protect you from this sort of danger but it doesn't: both Claude and Codex deliberately disable the sandbox. Read more at: tidyde…”

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Hadley Wickham: Ask a coding agent to run a curl-pipe-sh install command and it will — even if it notices the danger. I thought auto mode would protect you from this sort of danger but it doesn't: both Claude and …
libbyheeren.bsky.social: Me to Claude every day: "Excuse me, SIR! What are you doing??"
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