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Why it mattersAnthropic's internal data shows junior technical hires falling from 27% to 9%, agents logging six times human hours, and human attention becoming the bottleneck, but it is a single self-reported company with non-random adoption and no external validation.
Why it mattersPostgreSQL 19 slipped to about November 19 and lost 8-10 features because LLM-assisted code review surfaced more defects than maintainers could fix, a concrete case of AI review changing open source release practice, though it rests on one project and one com…
Why it mattersAn AI model reportedly solved a 25-year cryptographic mystery in under 30 minutes by tracing NIST curve seeds to lrand48 and timestamps, making deliberate backdoors less plausible, though it is self-reported by Anthropic and changes no practical security.