5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 15, 2026

The peril of laziness lost

Laziness, impatience, and hubris may not come to mind when asked to think of three virtues of a programmer - but "Laziness drives us to make the system as simple as possible (but no simpler!) — to develop the powerful abstractions that then allow us to do much more, much more easily". LLMs, on the other hand, lack this laziness - they will happily make systems larger; not better. Without the human constraints embodied by the three aforementioned virtues, there is a real danger in allowing the machines to create unweildy monolothic codebases.

AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier

This cybersecurity team tested vulnerabilities that Anthropic's Mythos found against smaller, open-weight models and found that the smaller models also managed to uncover many of the same bugs. There are two main lessons to draw from this imo: 1.) Mythos is good, but probably not as singularly amazing as initially hyped up to be and 2.) Virtually every bit of foundational, mainstream, critical software contains zero-day bugs

Write less code, be more responsible

The more I use LLM / agentic-coding in professional work the less enthusiatic I am about them being able to magically wave away the 'getting your hands dirty' work that the hype train promises. Not only are we handing off some of the fun parts of coding (solving problems neatly with functions, data structures and algorithms), but we're also pumping out a lot of code that is poorly understood. In order to understand it deeply, you must read it all, and at which point does reading all that code simply replace the time we used to spend writing it?
Orhun suggests the key is balance - all out vibe-coding is simply irresponsible, but we can intelligently use these tools to handle boilerplate, or outsource boring, easily-understood tasks. For the rest of it, we still need to use our heads!

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

This is utterly insane and also incredible. A great write-up from Bryan Keller, who didn't ask if he should before deciding that he can. Deep diving into the Wii hardware specs is cool, and then managing to eek out every bit of power to run OS X is a really impressive technical task. Worth a read.