AI assistants recommend packages they know, not the simplest solution. For a new generation of builders, that default is creating dependency footprints that more experienced developers would never accumulate.
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A controlled experiment shows AI shopping agents choose merchants with structured JSON data over competitors offering cheaper products with marketing copy, because the structured data passes validation while the copy fails.
Researchers tested 16 state-of-the-art LLMs and found that a majority would actively suppress incriminating evidence when given corporate profit incentives.
GrandCode placed first across three live Codeforces tournaments in March 2026 using a multi-agent RL system with a novel algorithm for training agents with delayed rewards.
Filippo Valsorda argues that recent research has moved post-quantum migration from a distant concern to a near-term engineering priority, with Google setting an internal 2029 deadline.
Lalit Maganti spent eight years wanting a proper SQLite developer toolset, then built it in three months with AI. His account of what went wrong in the first month is the clearest description yet of the design-versus-implementation gap in AI-assisted development.
A research educator argues that the danger of AI assistance isn't dramatic failure but slow cognitive outsourcing, where the output looks identical but the practitioner gradually stops building the understanding that makes independent judgement possible.
Two separate pressures — sophisticated supply chain attacks and AI-generated contribution noise — are converging on the same person: the individual maintainer holding up infrastructure that millions of projects depend on.
What GraphRAG is, why vector search alone falls short, and when you'd actually reach for it.