The Ouroboros Machine (opens in new tab)

Somewhere inside the engineering departments of the world's largest technology companies, a peculiar feedback loop has taken hold. AI systems generate code. Other AI systems review that code. Human developers, increasingly sidelined from the details of what they are shipping, approve the results with a cursory glance, trusting that the machines have checked each other's work. It is a recursive dependency model that, on the surface, appears to represent the pinnacle of software engineering eff...