The OpenAI Codex coding tool has started to encrypt prompts and use the ciphertext directly for inference. The change raises questions about the reproducibility, observability, and privacy of developers' inputs.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 12 8
Salvatore Sanfilippo (Redis) publishes a short and clear post on what remains for the developer when AI writes the code. His answer: the idea, the architecture, the judgment. The rest is delegable.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 9 8
An Unregistered Report on arXiv tackles the question we were avoiding: what criteria, what biases, do developers use when they accept - or refuse - the code of an LLM. This is the empirical foundation that was missing from the debate.
Jul 13, 2026 at 09:14 14 12
New arXiv paper: programmers are not only bad judges of LLM-generated assertions - they are overconfident in their judgment. The combo that derails AI code review.
Jul 13, 2026 at 09:13 11 8
Japan's largest developer commits $9bn to a data-center building spree, just as Southeast Asia's AI ambitions collide with a grid that can't keep up. The AI cycle's next phase is a real-estate and electricity story - and Asia is where it's playing out first.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 10 8
