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"There is always a move." -@bhorowitz
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
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Incredibly bizarre thing happening to me: I've gotten really lazy in my prompting because the models are so robust to typos, word misuse, omitting words, etc.
But now I keep catching myself typing out messages the same way in Slack?
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I think many of us working in tech tend to forget that the reason software engineering vs other engineering fields pays (a lot!) more, is a lot more flexible (WFH/remote), and has better perks:
Because this field changes much faster than other engineering fields. The premium is because fewer people are able/willing to pick up new technologies, methodologies so quickly.
But the field had ~10-20 years of stability, and so lots of folks forgot this is why a premium exists. And that AI is just another tech wave: software engineers who pick it up and master it will generally fare better; those not will struggle a lot more.
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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.
every day now someone will post like, “⚠️it’s time to lock down your pcrtx mandated caches, they got hit with the pcrtx 3.4.5 vulnerability which allows unencrypted glbdrt files to overwrite the /lxz/vyy subdirectory” and everyone will be like “ah shit of course not vyy”
It's so over
i had 12 Claude agents running in parallel for 6 hours and i managed to reverse engineer @supabase
i'm making it available here so that you can save your tokens - 100% free & open-source:
github.com/supabase/supabase
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A real thing I'm doing now is telling the models to find interesting ideas from published literature that we can productionize to improve our software, it's awesome lol
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"We will ship that <today/tomorrow/this week>"
vs.
"I'm advocating internally to our PMs to include this on our Q4 roadmap and will let you know after our next exec review"
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I often get emails from junior engineers asking me what to do.
Here's what I just wrote to one of them
Most relationship problems are ultimately just a lust for life problem. Gf/wife unhappy, kids distant, some disconnect with the family etc. You try to solve the discomfort through tangible achievement. Think it's because you're not making enough, providing enough, "successful" enough
You need to upsize the house, upgrade the vacations, perform more, show off more. Not realizing that this comparison based expectation you created in your mind and how it subsequently causes you to behave is exactly what's causing the problems in the first place
Meanwhile the only problem is just a severe lack of vitality. You're boring and moody and see reality as an obligation and take yourself way too seriously. You're not a beacon of energy, you don't inspire the people around you, you don't inject wonder and curiosity into their lives. There's no adventure, no spontaneity, no presence. You lost their love because you lost the love for yourself
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You know what weird millionaire vampire man, I appreciate that your special interest in your girlfriend’s pussy is probably going to lead to some of the only funded research of the female reproductive system in decades if not centuries.
Bryan Johnson's girlfriend is tracking her own 'nighttime erections' - with a special 'techno tampon' trib.al/UE1hoYX
Exactly what I told my team this Friday!
A good general rule for optimizing your coding loop right now is if something *feels* tedious and annoying, you should take a step back and ask yourself how an agent or simple tool an agent can build can make it less tedious.
For example, if line-by-line code review is tedious, what artifacts or proofs could you generate that would give you both understanding and confidence in a given change so that reviewing it isn't a slog?




























