A sprawling essay argues that optimization, as exemplified by Soviet whaling and AI alignment, is the root of many societal problems, citing Goodhart's Law and overfitting as core concepts. The author…
Software engineers are increasingly becoming obsessed with running multiple AI coding agents around the clock, driven by anxiety that any downtime is lost productivity, according to a blog post by Moo…
A developer recounts a frustrating experience with a mobile banking app's chatbot that deflected rather than resolved their issue, highlighting how deflection rate—a metric that measures whether custo…
A developer warns that Goodhart's Law undermines agent evaluation suites when pass/fail scores become targets, causing teams to optimize for test performance rather than real-world quality. The post a…
AI-generated code now accounts for half to two-thirds of net new code in many organizations, but larger pull requests driven by AI tools correlate with more bugs, according to Span Field CTO Stephen P…