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Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Disengaging from syntax is not disengaging from engineering.
I’m working on a significant project at the moment. It’s in a pre-production state so far. More than a prototype, less than ready for real users.
I’ve been making multiple passes over the structure for each of the following concerns: Architecture, coverage, race & concurrency, security, API, etc. Each of these requires significant interrogation and review of verification procedures; but not review of the code.
At base are the /ub-mode (GitHub.com/unclebob) rules that keep the agents disciplined as far as coding structure and tests are concerned. But above that it’s me making sure that all the bases are covered well enough to keep my client safe from stupid sloppy mistakes.
I am the engineer. I am responsible. The agents are just my tools. They are power tools, to be sure. But power tools in the hands of novices result in missing fingers. So I am very careful.
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Hyprland 0.57.0 is finally here, with tons of new stuff you don't wanna miss!
hypr.land/news/update57/
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Today we’re introducing Gemini 4 Carbon — our newest frontier model from @GoogleDeepMind.
Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities. Built for sustained agentic workflows, it delivers improved performance across domains — with greater alignment, transparency, and follow-through to respond to high-pressure tasks.
We’re rolling it out starting this week to cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program, with expanded access as soon as possible.
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Turn of your Tailscale SSH, people 🫠 tailworm.com
‼️ Researcher Erica Windisch skipped coordinated vulnerability disclosure and published 11 unpatched Tailscale flaws.
In her lab, Tailscale SSH race conditions let one hacked device get root on other servers and add a rogue node.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Tailscale SSH flaws detailed require a compromised but approved device on the tailnet that has been granted SSH access by policy. Tailscale has reviewed the report and stated they do not recommend disabling Tailscale SSH for everyone while they prepare patches. tailworm.com reddit.com/r/Tailscale/co…
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
How on earth did this happen:
The Indian certificate authority (CA) eMudhra had one job (well, two):
1. Create secure, 384-bit private keys
2. Store these securely and do not leak them
Well, eMudhra chose private keys between 1 and 256 (the numbers!!) and called it a day. WTF
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
You gotta love Deepseek. This is awesome stuff! github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepI…
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Omalauncher is now open source, with a fresh update version 0.4.0 that lets you easily share your agentic created apps/widgets via QR code. Please share your best work, I want to see them all
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
As the exclusive sponsorship begins, another big thank you to @Omarchy's Omacom Foundation for sponsoring Hyprland for 3 years!!
This will allow Hyprland to smoothly continue development for the coming years and bring more and more hypr into linux.
omarchy.org
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
So I tested the big fat cat: Mistral Large 4. Two real repos, 105 replanted bugs. Find and fix what you can.
The results:
- Qwen 3.8 Max (max): 25.7
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max): 21.7
- Kimi K3 (default): 23
- GLM-5.3 (max): 19
- Mistral Large 4 (high, its max): 15 (avg of 17, 11, 17)
- Qwen3.8-27B: 15 (you can actually run it locally)
It's not the best, the cheapest, or the fastest. It just is - an European model. The best thing I can say is that didn't ask me about cookies.
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
72% of the intelligence with 3.8% of the GPUs.
Just to show how talented @MistralAI team is: this shows the "intelligence per GPU" ratio.
- Mistral 4: 3,800 Grace Blackwell (published) 🇫🇷
- GPT-6 Astra: 100,000+ Grace Blackwell (published)
- Grok 4.7: ~200,000 GPUs (estimate)
- Claude Opus 5.5: ~500,000 Trainium2 (estimate)
Proud!
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
🤖 Made with AI
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
I skimmed it and generally agree with the sentiment. AI is a tool created by us to serve us. As such, despite the powers we endow it with, it will always be inferior to us.
We have endowed great powers to bulldozers. Bulldozers have not replaced us. We do not idolize them. Bulldozers are not our “golden calf”. And neither are AIs.
Gioele SL Fierro retweeted
Software engineers are supposed to do exactly what we’ve always done. Ensure that the composition and structure of the system is robust and maintainable and that the behavior of the system properly serves the needs of our users.
This requires engineering discipline. It need not require detailed reading of the code; just as using compilers does not require detailed reading of the binary.
