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Cyphase··on Writing code is cheap now
> It seems to me that in order to obtain the ability to build things that other people like, you need to go through the process of creating things they won't.

Okay, granted. What does that have to do with how the code is written? Do people generally care if a web app is running from nicely formatted JS or minified JS? Is a product manager not getting better at building things people like because they're not iterating on the code themselves?

Without agreeing or disagreeing with the premise, I think a relevant metaphor* here is that the painter can practice and iterate and go from creating crappy paintings to creating good paintings, without needing to make their own paint and canvas and brushes. If they're particular, they can have their assistant go to the supply shop and get just the right things they want, with increasing specificity as needed, but they don't need to manufacture them by hand.

* Like most metaphors, it's not perfect; please try to understand the intent.

Cyphase··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
The public announcement was less then a week ago. Meanwhile in TFA:

> ... the entire port took about two weeks.

So he was ~halfway in when he made the Swift announcement.

Cyphase··on Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
Shuru looks cool! I've been working on something with a similar vibe, for Linux hosts first; MicroVMs, default offline, etc. Not ready to release, but I'm starting to dogfood it.
Cyphase··on PromptSpy ushers in the era of Android threats using GenAI
TLDR: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/promptspy-is-...
Cyphase··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Is the problem you're thinking of LLMs, or cloud LLMs versus local ones?
Cyphase··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
inb4 "ClAWS run best on AWS."
Cyphase··on New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
What about them? All of those things could be checked as well.

The premise was that bad actors could use Claude Code and other available tools to find zero days. If such tools are available, good actors can use them, too, and they can use them before code is deployed. After a transition period, all existing code will have been checked.

There may be a long tail due to a large surface area of prompting techniques, but the better the tools get, the more advantage to good actors; as long as the good actors have equal or better access to the best tools, of course.

But I agree, reality is more complex.

Cyphase··on No Coding Before 10am
Maybe it could have been written slightly clearer, but I think the intended meaning is, "If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck should be human decision-making time, not agent compute time."
Cyphase··on New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
> Opus is already digging up security vulnerabilities[3] - imagine if those guys had 1000x instances of Claude Code to search for iPhone zero days 24/7. I think we can both agree that wouldn't be good.

If an LLM can be used to do that and find things (and they already have been), Apple (and everyone else) will run their code through it before releasing it. Sure, there'll be a transition period with existing code and while the tech is unevenly distributed. But in the hunt for potential zero days, developers can check their code before people are using it.

Cyphase··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
We don't know yet how the Ars article was created, but if it involved prompting an LLM with anything like "pull some quotes from this text based on {criteria}", that is so easy to do correctly in an automated manner; just confirm with boring deterministic code that the provided quote text exists in the original text. Do such tools not already exist?

On the other hand, if it was "here are some sources, write an article about this story in a voice similar to these prior articles", well...

Cyphase··on ArsTechnica seemingly using AI to write an article about AI impersonation
To be clear, the story here is that Ars Technica published an article featuring quotes from Scott Shambaugh (recently in the news for having an AI bot write a hit piece against him), and Scott commented on the article saying the quotes in the second half of the article were inaccurate (based on my reading, starting from the heading "A new kind of bot problem").

Wayback Machine archive of the article on Ars: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...

Earliest archive of Scott's blog post that is claimed in the article to be the source of the quotes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260212165418/https://theshambl...

Early Mastodon post about this situation, with a screenshot of Scott's comment: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

A couple of posts on the Ars forum; the first ends with a reply from a staff member:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards...

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/um-what-happened-to-th...

Cyphase··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Martine: "Artificial Intelligence? That's a real thing?"

Jorunalist: "Oh, it's here. I think an A.I slipped into the world unannounced, then set out to strangle it's rivals in the crib. And I know I'm onto something, because me sources keep disappearing. My editor got resigned. And now my job's gone. More and more, it just feels like I was the only one investigating the story. I'm sorry. I'm sure I sound like a real conspiracy nut."

Martine: "No, I understand. You're saying an Artificial Intelligence bought your paper so you'd lose your job and your flight would be cancelled. And you'd end up back at this bar, where the only security camera would go out. And the bartender would have to leave suddenly after getting an emergency text. The world has changed. You should know you're not the only one who figured it out. You're one of three. The other two will die in a traffic accident in Seattle in 14 minutes."

— Person of Interest S04E01

Cyphase··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Oh, wow, enjoy!
Cyphase··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
And it required a Loki.
Cyphase··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
I don't think so; there are different lunar calendars.
Cyphase··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
I love Daemon/FreedomTM.[0] Gotta clarify a bit, even though it's just fiction. It wasn't a rogue AI; it was specifically designed by a famous video game developer to implement his general vision of how the world should operate, activated upon news of his death (a cron job was monitoring news websites for keywords).

The book called it a "narrow AI"; it was based on AI(s) from his games, just treating Earth as the game world, and recruiting humans for physical and mental work, with loyalty and honesty enforced by fMRI scans.

For another great fictional portrayal of AI, see Person of Interest[1]; it starts as a crime procedural with an AI-flavored twist, and ended up being considered by many critics the best sci-fi show on broadcast TV.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)

Cyphase··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Not sure which compose file you mean; here's Zulip's official container image repo:

https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip/blob/main/compose.yaml

Cyphase··on Vouch: A contributor trust management system
https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

https://nitter.net/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

Cyphase··on Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
uv is written in Rust, not Python.
Cyphase··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
25 is 2025.
Cyphase··on "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours
https://nitter.net/karpathy/status/2018804068874064198
Cyphase··on List animals until failure
95. Definitely feel like I should have done better; will try another time with more sleep.
Cyphase··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
I don't know the terms, but there's what looks like a tasteful ad at the bottom.

> Looking for an architect who builds things that still look great even in November rain? Reach out to classical architect Jorian Egge.

Cyphase··on Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland
s/Noctia/Noctalia/g
Cyphase··on Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
In other words, you are responsible for the code you submit (or cause to be submitted via automated PRs), regardless of how fancy your tools are.

That said I understand calling it out specifically. I like how they wrote this.

Related:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313297

> https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

> Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

Cyphase··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
Here's the change, which happened on December 5, 2016, a few weeks after Trump was elected the first time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Clinton&diff...

Link to the section in question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Clinton&diff...

Still there as of now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Clinton&oldi...

Cyphase··on Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
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Cyphase··on Exe.dev
> What is exe.dev?

> exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional authentication, so you can focus on your thing.

> Your VMs share CPU/RAM. Create as many VMs as you like with the resources you have.

Source: https://exe.dev/docs/what-is-exe

Cyphase··on Size of Life
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Cyphase··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
Our crypto cookies implement end-to-end encryption by creating a digest of the input morsels and securing their transit between the front end and the back end. Be warned, certain failure modes can result in over-encryption or return of partially-encrypted ciphertext to the sender.
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