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20 SEP 2026 · Hacker News · 35 pts · 2 comments ↗

Microsoft and OpenAI knowingly created a "doom loop" for the web by scraping vast amounts of data to train their AI models, with Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, characterizing this as the "largest theft of labor in human history." AI summary

16 SEP 2026 · Paper

This paper introduces ProgramDistill, a benchmark that evaluates coding agents on their ability to infer behavior from working software and implement it in an incomplete application. Practitioners in AI/ML and web development might care about this work because it provides a scalable and controlled benchmark for evaluating and training coding agents.