Blog entries for Saturday, 30 May 2026

Software

The Photocopy of a Photocopy: Why AI Code might have a built in ticking timebomb

A CTO I worked with years ago used to tell a story about 30 monkeys in a room. Bananas are hanging from the ceiling. Every time a monkey goes for the bananas, all of them get blasted with freezing water. Eventually, they stop going for the bananas. Then you start swapping in new monkeys, one at a time. A new monkey walks in, spots the bananas, and goes for them. The others immediately stop him, even though they've never been sprayed themselves. Keep going until every original monkey is gone. Now
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