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AI coding agents fall for malicious instructions planted in the Downloads folder A file that a website saves to the Downloads folder without approval can trick AI coding agents into installing a malicious npm package or handing over the user’s login token when they’re opened in that folder, Forever Security has found. The file is called AGENTS.md, a plain text document developers place in a project folder with instructions for coding agents, the AI tools t

Creating code with AI can result in working code quickly, but as new features are added repeatedly, it can lead to inconsistencies with old processes or make the code more complex. To investigate such issues, a benchmark called "SlopCodeBench" was developed, which allows AI to incrementally add new specifications to its own generated code while measuring the maintenance of functionality and changes in code quality. SlopCodeBench https://www.scbench.ai/ Spr

OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, Inc., the startup behind Code Storage and several open-source tools. Pierre's libraries already power OpenAI's coding agent Codex. "Trees" handles fast project file navigation, "Diffs" displays code changes and lets users fix bugs right in the diff view, and "H

AI coding agents still need human cleanup on nearly three out of four tasks in a real-world test Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 8, 2026 ChatGPT-5.6 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@contex