{"id":255198,"date":"2026-05-25T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/famed-iphone-sony-hacker-says-ai-coding-agents-are-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:00:09","slug":"famed-iphone-sony-hacker-says-ai-coding-agents-are-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/famed-iphone-sony-hacker-says-ai-coding-agents-are-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed iPhone, Sony Hacker Says AI Coding Agents Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famed iPhone, Sony Hacker Says AI Coding Agents Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/copilot\/articles\/famed-iphone-sony-hacker-says-190604353.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-25 15:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: tech.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

George Hotz\u2014the hacker who first cracked the iPhone at age 17 and reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3 before Sony sued him for it\u2014published a blog post Sunday arguing that mass adoption of AI coding agents will end in disaster, or at least close to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field\u2019s history,\u201d Hotz wrote. \u201cAgents cannot program, and it\u2019s taking longer and longer to realize that they can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe output is broken, but in a way that\u2019s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you\u2019d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The post, titled “The Eternal Sloptember,” arrives five days after Andrej Karpathy, one of AI’s most prominent researchers, joined Anthropic’s pre-training team with the explicit view that AI agents have already transformed software development. The two men now represent opposite poles of a debate the industry hasn’t settled\u2014and both have actual credibility to stake a position.<\/p>\n

Hotz didn’t reach his conclusion from the sidelines. He spent six months using agents on real projects: parts of Tinygrad, his open-source deep learning framework, and a complete firmware reverse-engineering of a USB-PCIe chip. “The agent frontloads all the progress,” he writes, then hands you what he describes as a slot machine lever\u2014you pull it and hope the finishing work gets done.<\/p>\n

It never quite does.<\/p>\n

Not about ego<\/h3>\n

Hotz anticipates the obvious pushback: a programmer who defines part of his identity through his craft would naturally resist tools that threaten to replace him. He takes the objection seriously and dismisses it on the merits.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u200b\u200bI thought more about the self worth preservation thing. Google\u2019s AFL found more bugs than LLMs and nobody felt that way about it. Chess and Go are more popular than ever,\u201d Hotz wrote. And he\u2019s right in the sense that…<\/p>\n

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