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The Download: coding’s future, the ‘Steroid Olympics,’ and AI-driven science

The Download: coding’s future, the ‘Steroid Olympics,’ and AI-driven science

Subscribers can watch the full recording now. World models are also one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now, our list of what’s really worth your attention in the busy, buzzy world of AI. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Trump has postponed an AI order due to overregulation fearsHe said he was concerned it would be “a blocker.” (CNBC)+ And that he wants to preserve the US’s lead over China in AI. (Reuters $)+ A source said the delay was because he “just hates regulation.” (Axios)+ A war over regulation is coming to America. (MIT Technology Review) 2 OpenClaw’s engineers warn that a “vibe-coded slop” crisis is comingThey say AI is flooding the world with bad and even dangerous code. (WSJ $)+ Now vibe coding is coming to your phone, too. (The Verge)+ What exactly is vibe coding? (MIT Technology Review) 3 SpaceX has called off the launch of a new Starship prototypeEngineers discovered a ground system glitch. (CNBC)+ …

The Download: coding’s future, the ‘Steroid Olympics,’ and AI-driven science

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

Pull requests are fixes or updates to existing software that are submitted for review before they go live. They are the bread and butter of software development, the chunks of code that most professional developers spend their lives writing—or did until now. “Who here has shipped a pull request that was completely written by Claude where they did not read the code at all?” Hadfield asked next. Nervous laughter. Most of the hands stayed up. It’s not news that LLM-powered tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have upended the way software gets made. Top tech companies now like to boast of how little code their developers write by hand. (“Most software at Anthropic is now written by Claude,” Hadfield said. “Claude has written most of the code in Claude Code.”) OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft make similar claims. Many others wish they could. Even so, it is striking how normal this new paradigm already seems, and how fast it has set in. This was the second year that Anthropic has put on developer events, …