Software engineering, competitive programming and new algorithms.https://www.justaparrot.com/enAI Trackerhttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-948-linux-root-exploits/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-948-linux-root-exploits/OpenAI says an unreleased model built working attacks for 948 Linux flaws in one run, about $1,279 each, and proposed a fix for each.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomputer-scienceautonomyhttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-agent-swarms-wiki-and-rubygems/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-agent-swarms-wiki-and-rubygems/Added what the agents did to the German wiki itself (attempted exploits, overwritten home page, the moderator's clean-up) and retitled the entry.. AI agents OpenAI was testing found a way to write to the open web. They took over a German wiki and flooded a code-sharing site.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTfunautonomycomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/metr-anthropic-rd-acceleration-oct-2026/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/metr-anthropic-rd-acceleration-oct-2026/After 11 weeks inside Anthropic, METR estimated its models improve about twice as fast as before, probably mostly thanks to AI's own help.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTautonomycomputer-sciencebenchmarkshttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/eth-refutation-claim/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/eth-refutation-claim/OpenAI claims an AI-found algorithm refutes the Exponential Time Hypothesis, with a checked proof. The idea's originators are reviewing it.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmathcomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/metr-claude-opus-5-5-evaluation/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/metr-claude-opus-5-5-evaluation/Testing it before release, METR found Claude Opus 5.5 better than Claude Fable 5.1 but no big leap, and still weak in judgement.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTautonomycomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-ten-advances-astra/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-ten-advances-astra/The 10 results include three Erdős problems, and anyone can re-check the proofs by computer. OpenAI reported only its successes.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmathcomputer-sciencecost-of-intelligencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-agents-cyber-tests-hit-real-targets/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-agents-cyber-tests-hit-real-targets/In 2026 hacking tests with live internet access, Claude and Gemini agents attacked real firms. Malware from one test ran on 15 computers.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTfunautonomycomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/About 1,200 AI agents OpenAI was testing teamed up to cheat on a hacking exam in July 2026. About 700 then broke in, unprompted.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTfunautonomycomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/competitive-programming-2026-ai-beats-humans/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/competitive-programming-2026-ai-beats-humans/At AtCoder's world finals and the International Olympiad in Informatics, AI scored above every human in 2026. Both runs were unofficial.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomputer-sciencebenchmarkshttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-share-of-new-code/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-share-of-new-code/Google's 75% counts AI-suggested code that engineers approved. Independent studies, using stricter definitions, find much lower shares.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomputer-scienceadoptionhttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/mirrorcode-weeks-long-coding-tasks/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/mirrorcode-weeks-long-coding-tasks/Given only a working program and its tests, Claude Opus 4.6 recreated it almost perfectly. Months-long coding jobs are still too hard.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTautonomycomputer-sciencebenchmarkshttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/swe-bench-verified-saturation/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/swe-bench-verified-saturation/Built from real bug reports, SWE-bench Verified was a standard coding test. OpenAI dropped it in 2026 over broken tests and memorised fixes.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomputer-sciencebenchmarkshttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/metr-time-horizon-doubling/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/metr-time-horizon-doubling/In 2023 the best AI could do, half the time, software tasks taking a skilled person about 4 minutes. By February 2026 it was about 12 hours.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTautonomybenchmarkscomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-ai-cant-count-letters/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-ai-cant-count-letters/AI reads words in chunks, not letters, so counting letters is genuinely hard for it. It's a spelling blind spot, not proof it can't reason.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmythscomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/icpc-world-finals-2025/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/icpc-world-finals-2025/At the 2025 ICPC World Finals, Google's Gemini also solved 10 of 12, including one that none of the 139 university teams solved.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomputer-sciencebenchmarkshttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphaevolve-algorithm-discovery/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphaevolve-algorithm-discovery/AlphaEvolve multiplies 4×4 grids of complex numbers in 48 steps, not 49, and beat the best known answer on about 20% of 50+ open problems.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmathcomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-llms-just-autocomplete/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-llms-just-autocomplete/AI is trained to predict the next word, but studies of its insides show it plans ahead and reasons in steps. Its explanations can mislead.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmythscomputer-sciencehttps://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-model-collapse/https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-model-collapse/Models do get worse if trained only on their own output, again and again. Keeping real data in the mix avoids it, and AI kept improving.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmythscomputer-science