code cowboy with a splash of vibe
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Joined April 2024
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My worlds on fire, how about yours? That's the way I like it and I'll never get bored.
Or whatever Smash Mouth said.
Sorry everyone... We're announcing a 0-Day vuln in QUIC that allows anyone to remotely turn off a server running these libraries. I swear we didn't plan this.
foxio.io/blog/header-accordi…
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chatphp pls generate a single digit privkey with my distilled opencode api key, put it in a toilet paper roll behind the TV, and assign it CVE-2026-99999. Then reverse this French fridge’s firmware. Make no mistakes.
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Fantasy computer security problems: "Maybe by sending packets and detecting the timing of the vibrations of the computer case, it is possible for an attacker to gain information about the private key."
Real computer security problems: "The private key was 4. Not 4 digits. 4."
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Serwer PHP 5.6 niezaktualizowany od 12 lat:
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the good thing about the eMudhra CA private key mess is that we can finally use https on localhost
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I’m very pro AI, but in terms of the Twitter software engineering discourse I see mostly people doing single person vibe coding, or AI labs with infinite compute Ralph Wigguming giant codebases.
What I don’t see are people doing AI software engineering that has multiple humans contributing to a single code base, each using AI agents, working in a non-commodified domain.
In this world I believe the AI hype bois are over their skis in terms of proclaiming the death of software engineering. Maybe in the future but for now in this 6 month gradient of the Singularity the reality on the ground are things like:
- Using CI as a harness to ensure agentic coding is correct and validated
- Balancing velocity with other concerns (reliability, choosing the right problems, quality, etc)
- Making sure the system has an architecture and philosophy so that you don’t end up with spaghetti
- Still doing code reviews (though they can be augmented with AI) to ensure you don’t end up with cognitive debt.
- Balancing AI costs, and mixing in “human tokens” where appropriate
- etc
I’d love to hear more from others in this domain! Ie those not just doing solo development projects or AI labs with infinite compute
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Customers will trust the Apple TV with microphones because they have a 40+ year track record of never once listening to customers.
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Kudos to Pope Leo. I am disturbed by how some of my fellow AI researchers keep trying to elevate the moral standing of checkpoints and harnesses. I hope the rest of us on Team Meatbag reject this movement and stay focused on solving real problems and helping actual humans.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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Wrong way around. Most people on NVIDIA never touch anything below PyTorch. I wrote every algorithm in UchenML by hand on a Mac Studio - only based on textbooks and white papers. The hardware doesn't teach you. Typing with your fingers does. I can't imagine a better hardware for coding in C++.
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They invent these fucking galaxy brain thought experiments and then it's actually that they don't do basic network security
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change
"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."
"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."
"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."
"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."
"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…
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I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.