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A friendly reminder to follow through on your ideas (@EskomSePush was built a few weekends after this tweet)
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Vic 📠
@VicVijayakumarSep 16
my confidence in debugging prod incidents has never been higher, but my confidence that we're pushing good code to prod?
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Vic 📠
@VicVijayakumarSep 16
Directors and VPs discovering Claude Artifacts is hitting engineering teams like crack in the 80s
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The possibilities are endless. This was under an hour of research and about another hour building up the initial pipeline. It’s not pretty, but it shows what’s possible. Expected latency on the input stream would be under 10s. Made use of Lucy Restyle models. Videos below
Ashton Hudson@ashtonshudsonSep 4
what if i created a bootleg stream on youtube that transforms the video feed into this copyright friendly format? i mean, it would need some serious compute, sure, but the possibilities…
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output stream (its bad and gets better as it goes)
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For under 2 hours of development while in meetings, I don’t think it’s bad. Imagine what determined engineers are able to do.
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Raffi
@raffichillAug 12
Please write up a brief handoff document describing everything we've tried and what we are attempting to achieve so I can pass it along to another agent
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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOroszAug 12
I’ve been using it for ~2 hours and I’m absolutely blown away at how I could automate a bunch of my workflows. Cursor team built a way for “normies” to automate stuff. Feels like an OpenClaw 2.0 moment. (Zero affiliation, I upgraded to Ultra to use it and absolutely worth it.)
Grok Bot
@botAug 11
Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.
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Josh tried coding
@joshtriedcodingAug 4
alright whoever came up with the term MEAT PROXY is insane
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As someone who is in this role right now, leading an org during this era of tech is challenging. Ways of working are fundamentally shifting, expectations from stakeholders are changing, but the role feels like it’s not evolving with the changes. Many CTOs have moved back to more IC-centric roles as Anthropic MTS etc to be closer to industry change.
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOroszJul 27
Interesting trend: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break And they have v good reasons
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There's a ton here that has made the position challenging - interestingly some of the pressure is now bottom-up. Engineering teams diving into AI in various ways - then working with teams to standardise/drive RFCs, budgets, making sure that teams are working on the right thing instead of the "easy thing" not that AI can help etc.
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vx-underground
@vxundergroundMay 7
ShinyHunters compromised Canvas (to a currently unknown extent) which resulted in a "this system has been compromised" to over 9,000 universities. As ridiculous as that sounds, I'm not memeing. It has been speculated it is actually over 9,000 universities. ShinyHunters is having their ALPHV moment. They're now going to get attention at a serious scale outside of the information security circle.
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The @Instructure /Canvas hack is absolutely mental. So many learning institutions affected worldwide due to how widely-used it is. bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…

Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign

The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and...

bleepingcomputer.com
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Boring_Business
@BoringBiz_Apr 22
CFOs realizing that their AI token budget is going to be higher than the salaries of the people they laid off
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MyBroadband
@mybroadbandApr 24
Two South African women developed software that stops R82 billion in fraud a month Thalia Pillay and Carla Wilby started Orca Fraud in 2024. The company processes over R82 billion per month through its anti-fraud system. mybroadband.co.za/news/secur…

Two South African women developed software that protects R82 billion from fraud in a month

Thalia Pillay and Carla Wilby started Orca Fraud in 2024. The company processes over R82 billion per month through its anti-fraud system.

mybroadband.co.za
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Adam Rackis
@AdamRackisApr 20
My god love seeing a well-respected person share this view with me
David Cramer
@zeegApr 20
RLS was a mistake and folks exposing that level of complexity to less technical users is asking for trouble. It was a mistake in Firebase. It’s a mistake in Supabase. It will be a mistake in the next product too. I personally - even knowing how to secure it - would never touch it. It’s the worst security footgun you can imagine. One small mistake and your data is available to the world.
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refreshing to have @senyeezus back on here
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senyo
@senyeezusApr 18
before ai, everyone used to complain about the averageness of most developers. if you give them a tool to supercharge their output, they are not magically going to write better code. quality is still going to be uncommon
Klaas
@forgebitzApr 18
software is only getting worse, more bugs, bad uptime which is weird because ai is really good at coding at this point the productivity gains are erased by the speed of creation; we move faster but not "better"
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Clara van Staden@ClaraVanStadenApr 17
Actual footage
JNS
@_devJNSApr 16
me and Claude building an app at 3AM
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