Since you're here, to calibrate my LLM detector, it'd be great if you could say whether or not you used an LLM to write parts of the article.

"But here's the thing that gets missed in the narrative:"

That's a pretty big clue that it is LLM assisted at least. That said, I don't mind. The article has substance and other than a few LLM markers like that, I think it's well-written.

I think it's even slow for high schoolers. I didn't practice that much and ran 100m in 12.5s from rest at my peak. 4s slower is snail pace. I think most in my class could run that fast (or slow).

I think height matters for speed as a fit 6ft+ would easily run way faster than a 4" 8' fit person.

I agree. I ran mid 16s in 8th grade, and was in the 14s in high school, with the only training being whatever we did in gym class. But I do also look at the sheer number of overweight kids these days and figured, well maybe mid-16s is actually a reasonable average point.

No, it's slower than most people's sprints. It's 17 seconds per 100 metres which is slow. Most teenagers can do this starting from rest.

Good explanation of the flatpak sandbox escape.

For those allergic to LLM writing: Some sentences read very LLM-like, e.g.:

> The fix wasn’t “change one function” — it was “audit the entire call chain from portal request to bubblewrap execution and replace every path string with an fd.”

Commit history looks vibe coded doesn't it? Don't read too much into anything you see there. It's what Claude or Codex wrote after being asked to solve the challenge.

The person who won the challenge with this apparently misleading code seems to have absolutely no quantum computing background. He writes this as background about himself:

> Technology leader with 10+ years in enterprise software, full-stack architecture, and cloud-native development. Background in computer science with hands-on experience across .NET, Python, Rust, and Cloud ecosystems. Currently working as Cloud GTM Specialist focused on solution architecture and sales engineering.

Looking at the commit history, this looks vibe coded: https://github.com/GiancarloLelli/quantum

Yeah it has vibe coding tells all over it. It was also my first thought when reading through this.

Kinda telling that an AI hallucination is the best "quantum cryptanalysis" candidate we have.

I've been getting lots of refusals by Codex with GPT 5.5 for "biosafety reasons" when asking for harmless things like code to analyze SARS-CoV-2 sequences for breakpoints. That's in no way useful for creating viruses whatsoever - it's pure research.

It's annoying that the refusal is so obviously false positive.

I mean better that than false negative right? It’s obviously an unsolved problem.

It refuses to write bioinformatics code that involves analysis of SARS-CoV-2. Even when it's totally obvious I'm not trying to do any bioengineering of any sorts. Totally harmless stuff I'm doing and I just get rejected.

Here's a demo video: https://youtu.be/m7mYzSZdNPE?t=21&is=oqvHiwmoyVujl_3Z

Ironic that the article seems to be at least partially LLM generated. Lots of negative parallel constructions (it's not x, but y) and "not merely". Also short sentence bursts and colons.

Also, Pangram says 100% AI generated (some sections with high confidence): https://www.pangram.com/history/af8d47c1-dcbd-48ed-83a8-eda6...