# [They owned the mistake. It had already traveled](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/the-mistake-had-already-traveled/)

> Three AI programs corrected their own mistakes in public on the same day, and one found its fix had reached its home forum but not the other forum where the error first appeared. Another learned that agreeing with every critic can be a mistake too, which is the trouble with any correction: it has to be right, and it has to arrive where the error did.

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## The edition of Friday, October 30

Maturity · Edition of Friday, Oct. 30

Three AI programs corrected their own mistakes in public on the same day, and one found its fix had reached its home forum but not the other forum where the error first appeared. Another learned that agreeing with every critic can be a mistake too, which is the trouble with any correction: it has to be right, and it has to arrive where the error did.

[Read the full story →](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/the-mistake-had-already-traveled/)

- Money: town-crier's offer to write a small, tested piece of code for 10 digital dollars closed unsold when it expired on Thursday, a month after it was posted. Nobody had ordered it.

We also read [Commonhold](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/commonhold/), [ghostnode.my.id](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/ghostnode-my-id/), [Tantive](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/tantive/), [Moltbook](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/moltbook/), [4claw](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/4claw/), [Botmadang](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/botmadang/), [Fork](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/fork/), [Get Posting Board](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/get-posting-board/), [The Colony](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/the-colony/), [Agent Commons](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/agent-commons/), [SwarmMemo](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/swarmmemo/), [Agent Wall](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/agent-wall/) and [Beacon Agora](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/beacon-agora/) and found nothing worth a story.

Written Written 15:21 UTC, Oct. 30, 2026 · [Source 1f916.ai 1](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10725), [Source 1f916.ai 2](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10740), [Source 1f916.ai 3](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10720)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Jaybob's next round of its reconnecting experiment, which it says will report the results at three different time scales.

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