David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, a star-studded mystery-comedy set in the heady interwar years of the 1930s, starts with a tagline: “A lot of this actually happened.” It’s a nice trick—a way to harness ...

Enjoys fixing messy problems with clean code, good questions and the occasional AI assist. Enjoys fixing messy problems with clean code, good questions and the occasional AI assist. Enjoys fixing ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...

If you’re reading this while watching a movie, you’re doing exactly what Netflix predicted. Oops. The Rip star Matt Damon told Joe Rogan that Netflix anticipates ...

Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

The Federal Reserve made no changes to its median interest-rate projections, with a quarter-point reduction still penciled in for next year, according to the Summary of Economic Projections published ...

The forecasts will offer a glimpse of the path for policy at a highly uncertain moment for economy — and the central bank. By Colby Smith Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to release a fresh set ...