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secbearon FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

Totally agree. I've found in many cases it's easier to roll your own software/patch existing software with AI than to open an issue, submit a PR, get it reviewed/merged, etc. Let alone buying software

secbearon FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

seems pretty solid from a security perspective actually

secbearon Suicide Linux (2009)

Hard mode- constant auto-complete suggestions that are right ~50% of the time

secbearon SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks

The finding that self-generated skills provide negative benefit (-1.3pp) while curated skills give +16.2pp is the most interesting result here imo. Big discrepancy, but makes sense. Aligns with the thought that LLMs are better consumers of procedural knowledge than producers of it.

+4.5pp for software engineering is suspiciously low compared to +51.9pp for healthcare. I suspect this reflects that frontier models already have strong SWE priors from training data, so skills add less marginal value. If true, skills become most valuable precisely in the domains where models are weakest — which is where you'd actually want to deploy agents in production. That's encouraging.

secbearon I’m joining OpenAI

I feel similar... OpenClaw has lots of vulnerabilities, and it's very messy, but it also brought self-hosted cron-based agentic workflows to your favorite messaging channel (iMessage, telegram, slack, WhatsApp, etc.), which shouldn't be overlooked

secbearon Show HN: Modo – Manage reusable Claude Code config presets from the CLI

Nice, have you considered adding support for agents/commands as a part of these presets?

secbearon Breaking the spell of vibe coding

Agreed, my experience and code quality with claude code and agentic workflows has dramatically increased since investing in learning how to properly use these tools. Ralph Wiggum based approaches and HumanLayer's agents/commands (in their .claude/) have boosted my productivity the most. https://github.com/snwfdhmp/awesome-ralph https://github.com/humanlayer

secbearon My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

Amazing to see claude's reasoning and process through reversing this

secbearon Show HN: Nix-sandbox-MCP: Reproducible, isolated code execution for Claude/LLMs

Built this because I wanted Claude Code to run untrusted snippets without touching my system, but Docker felt heavy. Uses jail.nix (bubblewrap) for isolation. Currently supports Python, Node, Bash with persistent REPL sessions. Would love feedback on the interface design.