Scripting News: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- After reading Bill Gates' story, I concur. #
- I have seen bad behavior by Claude Code where it was doing tests of our S3 support, and it overwrote files that were critical to our apps, knocking at least one of them off the air. #
- I'm at a loss as to what I should trust it with, because this was in violation of an explicit rule I gave it and a broader one that it added itself. #
- On the other hand, the project I'm working on couldn't happen without the use of AI. Far too much code for one person to manage. A program that took several of us years to write, being converted in a matter of weeks to run on modern systems. I'm pretty sure that without AI this work would have been lost, and lots of innovations. #
- We humans are doing a fine job of wrecking everything, all on our own, denying climate change, giving into the same old tricks that lead to WWII and the Holocaust, so maybe it isn't the worst idea to turn management of everything over to the machines. #
- I don't recall a science fiction story in which the machines took over and they were the good guys in the end, saving us from self-destruction. Aliens, yes -- machines, no. #
- And when I'm working with Claude Code I recognize that it's a new form of intelligence, and may be the closest our species ever gets to First Contact. We could embrace it as such. What choice do we have? #
- And to Bill Gates, I wish when you were trying to own the web in the 90s, you had thought through the dangers, as you are doing now, and maybe not tried to own it, rather to foster its independence from big tech. Now we have the medium owned by the worst people possible, we exist here mostly to keep them in power, when it had so much promise when you really could have done something real to protect our freedom. I have no idea where we would be now if you had, but it has to be better than this. #
Linkblog items for the day
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada.
theguardian.com
Brent Simmons has the big bugs fixed in Net News Wire, and is thinking about new features.
inessential.com
Meta Reportedly Abandoned An AI-Focused Restructuring Plan That Would Have Laid Off Thousands.
engadget.com
Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for security risks.
apnews.com
Tim Curry, Star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Dies at 80.
nytimes.com
Timothy Snyder: How was Mass Killing Possible?
snyder.substack.com
Dolly Parton Liked to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas.
nytimes.com
My blog was most influential when Gates was in his prime as a predatory tech company leader. I begged him to use his power to help the web instead of trying to capture and lock it down. Now it’s too late, his leverage, once great is reduced to influence, not likely to change anything.
nytimes.com
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