WE DID IT! We reverse-engineered Blender with AI and made it open source. Introducing BlenderCraft 🚀

25K votes, 1.1K comments. After an entire weekend of running 19 autonomous Claude agents and burning an irresponsible amount of tokens, we're proud…

Losing the imitation game

AI cannot develop software for you, but that's not going to stop people from trying to make it happen anyway. And that is going to turn all of the easy software development problems into hard problems.

An End-to-End View of AI Safety

In this blog, Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Executive Director, Careful Industries discusses our newly published literature review on the safe adoption of artificial intelligence in engineered systems.

Endor Labs launches free tool AURI after study finds only 10% of AI-generated code is secure

Endor Labs launches AURI, a free security platform that embeds directly into AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude to catch vulnerabilities in AI-generated code before they ship to production.

Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself

Since 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already evolving.

Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding

The head of AI coding platform Cursor on what’s next for programming, whether AGI is imminent, and competing with Anthropic and OpernAI.

How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained

A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…

The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value

3D assets marketplace CGTrader is being flooded by AI slop, but nobody is buying it, suggesting AI isn't "repricing the market."

Demoing the AI computer that doesn't yet exist

A demo of what an AI-native personal computer could look like.

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It’s no secret there’s a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting “AI” on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washing, taking people’s creative works without permission, taking all the RAM and GPUs, and oh, destroying the planet, the latter have mostly stuck to fairly benign things like policies banning “AI” use, “AI” bot blockers, and the occasional honey pot mazes to trap “AI” crawlers.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...

Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...

AI Is a Waste of Time

The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.

LukeW | Common AI Product Issues

At this point, almost every software domain has launched or explored AI features. Despite the wide range of use cases, most of these implementations have been t...

Fire, ready, aim

The race to shoehorn half-baked AI features into enterprise products is a cynical subversion of UX that’s likely to lead to less adoption…

Where is all the new, good software?

Here's a question we see, especially from AI skeptics: if AI coding is so great, shouldn't we be seeing more new, good software by now? Here are some answ...

After automation: Software will work for you, not on you

Alex Komoroske, CEO and cofounder, Common Tools — AI promises “infinite software”—endless tools tailored to every need—but funneled through today's app stores, that abundance just means more silos, more trapped data, and more to orchestr...