The postmortem after the postmortem matters
A postmortem is not a ritual document. It is supposed to change behavior. Mowshowitz's exhausted follow-up is valuable because it asks what remains after five posts, new model launches, and more alignment worries. If nothing changes, the bullet points were theater.
What the source reports
Zvi Mowshowitz opens by saying he is exhausted after five posts on the Hugging Face attack and the near-term reaction. He then pivots to a crowded model-release week, including Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, and OpenAI's Astra. He flags a report that Astra uses recurrent depth, which he describes as shifting thinking outside the chain of thought. Chain of thought means the visible reasoning text a model may produce. Mowshowitz says OpenAI is playing with fire, while also saying the house has not yet burned down. This is opinionated weekly analysis, not primary incident evidence.
Original source
- Title
- AI #184: Post Post Mortem
- Author
- Zvi Mowshowitz
- Publication
- Don't Worry About the Vase
- Date
- Thursday, September 3, 2026