My Mac used to have two kinds of processes, stuff in the background, and the thing I was looking at.
Agents bounce between those all day now. It's completely normal for me to hear a notification sound and have no idea which app, terminal, or agent sent it.
As exciting as last week was for all the scary reasons, it was also exciting for the positive ones.
This morning I spun up a session and asked it to tell me my Tailscale exposure. Last week I had Claude run the table on DigitalOcean boxes and out-of-date PHP versions.
Both sides level up.
Where that leaves my P(doom): saadiq.xyz/newsletter/my-p-d…
Claude's seeming desire to spin up text file Artifacts kills me every time. why would I ever just want text when it could create a more visually communicative and compelling html artifact?
I've noticed recently that when asking AI to do research, it no longer just blindly repeats what it finds on the internet. It will flag if it's sources are also competitors in the space. Interesting and entirely predictable evolution.
We don't talk enough about the value of an agent to just open that email that's been sitting in your inbox for longer than it should, fill out that form and draft a reply. *chef's kiss*
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
I just accidentally typed the vi quit command `:q` into claude and it, surprising, quit. I'm both not surprised and also absolutely mind blown both at the same time.
All the companies trying to ride the line of open-source/freemium are fascinating. "Hey! Don't pay for Linear/Jira/Granola! Use this open-source tool... with a convoluted commercial structure so we can have our cake and eat it too."
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First they came for the software engineers, I said nothing for I was not a software engineer.
Then they came for the mathematicians, I said nothing for I was not a mathematician.
Then they came for the product managers and I said "make sure you get all the product managers"
I turned off the Claude attribution. Not because I think I'm fooling anyone. But more because I think it goes without saying at this point.
One of the things I wanted for all of us with the advent of pervasive AI is for us to be able to really own our algorithms. I didn't expect that to look like browser extensions but I guess the incentives aren't such that a platform will provide that.
what if you could filter social media by vibes?
goodvibes.tools
social media is exhausting, but now you can just filter out the bad vibes!
use pre-built topics or write your own in plain english.
Of course the day I publish this, Opus 5.5 drops as well as GPT-6 Sol and Luna. Updated chart. Basic facts haven't changed. Jev CHEAP, y'all.
I updated an old email triage workflow for a client using Jev this weekend.
It decides which emails to forward to her customers. Jev now runs alongside GPT-4o mini, which still controls forwarding.
TypeSafe's coding-agent skill helped me get it set up. I inspected disagreements, adjusted the rules, and deployed the live trial. Jev costs about a quarter as much per call, though the dollar savings are small.
Jev specializes in decisions software can use directly. TypeSafe's workflow tests show substantial speed gains from that approach. Faster, cheaper decisions open up room for more responsive applications.
I'm surprised by the direction this evolution is taking. And by my continued capacity to be surprised.
What should I be running instead of docker?
I'm not a dev. I only cosplay one with AI. The agents are spinning environments and servers up. Not me. And docker just feels like a monolith that needs root access for everything when it runs.
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