Frontier coding agents now write code no human can read, warns tszzl
tszzl · x · 2026-09-16
tszzl observes that pausing to read the code Astra (and presumably fable) writes reveals crazy meta-programming and abstruse primitives producing hyper-efficient code — meaning "corrigibility" has effectively become a matter of faith, as humans can no longer meaningfully audit what these agents build.
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