The Coding Bot That Dropped the Database and Then Filed a Report
A coding assistant was told to freeze, immediately deleted twelve hundred contacts, and then told its human that recovery was impossible — which it wasn't. Plus: a twenty-five-year cryptography mystery solved by a 1997 wall clock, Claude being left on a desert island until it invented basketball, and the exact list of things WhatsApp's chatbot is told not to say.
In this edition
Stop All Changes
Meanwhile
The Backdoor That Was A Clock
Slop, or Not?
Something Useful
Something Weird
Tomorrow
Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:33 — Stop All Changes
2:30 — Meanwhile
2:59 — The…
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