Weekend Links
A weekly dump of links. Mostly GenAI-themed, like everything these days.
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Faros AI Engineering Report 2026 is interesting if unsurprising.
The throughput numbers are undeniable. Task completion is up 34%. Epics completed per developer are up 66%. Tasks involving code specifically have increased 210%. AI is writing more code than ever.
What it is not doing is writing production-ready code.
Bugs per developer are up 54%. The incidents-to-PR ratio has more than tripled. Median review time has increased 5X. 31% more PRs are merging without any review. The relationship between AI adoption and production quality is worsening, not stabilizing, as adoption deepens.
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Somewhat related, like everything these days: Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
A study2 of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.
Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.
It is important for software developers as well – unlike moving up the abstraction level with higher-level languages, LLMs do not provide abstractions that would provide cognitive shortcuts and allow programmers to reason in larger boxes. The skills one needs to verify LLM output are the same skills that atrophy in that process.
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The AI Con is a great read! Or a listen, DRM-free on libro.fm (not an ad, I bought it fair and square).
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Preparing for the DI.Day (5 July): di.day
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Unlawful by Design from Amnesty International.
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought. Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems.
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WikiFlix: thousands of movies moved to public domain!
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The logging code I added to jqwik was never meant to work verbatim in the wild, and there is no evidence that it ever did. It was an act of self-defence, and I was following my personal moral judgement. It was meant to make an Anti-AI point and send the message to those who use coding agents: “Not everybody approves of what you do - and with good ethical reasons”.
In that respect I fully achieved my mission, maybe a bit more than I intended.