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@Pseudo_Prophet_ when your inference loop creates a physical one!

This is the supposedly superior Chinese self-driving technology of the BYD Han. 🤡 The car has been going round and round at the airport for hundreds of laps nonstop. 😅😂 The driver keeps pressing the brakes, but nothing happens. 😱

‼️ China's biggest cybersecurity company, Qihoo 360 (461M users), just leaked their own wildcard SSL private key inside the public installer for their new AI assistant "360 Security Claw." The private key for *.myclaw.360.cn was bundled directly in the download package under /namiclaw/components/OpenClaw/openclaw.7z/credentials. The cert is valid until April 2027. Attackers can now impersonate their servers, intercept user traffic, and forge login pages. Fun fact: the founder promised the product would "never leak passwords."

having trouble logging into Claude Code ? Fire up Agentswap and switch to codex or gemini brew install base-14/tap/agentswap github.com/nimishgj/agent…

read from the master - @irfn 's memo on detecting and fixing silent k8s scheduling failures docs.base14.io/blog/kubernete…

the most common starting message in the morning these days at work - "looks like payment failed for X". broad-swept rules created by our regulator have made running the show so difficult for small businesses, and the banks have no bean in them to fight dumb archaic rules and solve for us. yes we have the money, yes the cards have not expired, yes we follow all the guidelines, yes the payment worked yesterday, last month. and no, we don't want to setup an overseas account, we want to build, pay and accept in India without friction. one would assume this is the 1st thing that's sorted. jeezaloo.

more on the coding agent observability front - instrument coding agents and learn how your team uses claude/codex/gemini to build systems. docs.base14.io/blog/coding-ag…

I wanted a way to see what my Claude Code sessions actually look like over time, and how to build TUIs. so I built cicada. It's a TUI that reads your local session data and gives you basic analysis, token usage, project analytics, tool breakdowns, streaks, and full chat replay right in the terminal. brew install base-14/tap/cicada github.com/base-14/cicada

Excited to share “Poisoned Wells,” which presents the largest point-in-time study of website blocking in India to date. I tested the blocking of 294 million apex domains across six Indian ISPs, sending 1.76 billion DNS queries in total.

@rnjn Unfortunately, this is the kind of problem we tend to take seriously only after a security incident forces the issue. Until identity is agent-native, traceability and accountability will remain bolted-on workarounds.

feels more and more that github isn't designed for agents, only to sell agents. the per seat pricing is quietly hostile(?), it is becoming less commercially viable : - normally all your agents commit with your git identity. on github all the commits show up as 1 identity. if you want traceability, you should give each agent a separate identity and in order to do that with github you pay per seat. it is not on demand/metered by time, pricing is per month. - audit logs carry human identity. ideally they should carry model and agent identity. this also means you can't easily run analysis on which models performed better for you. i hate it when unreasonable pricing policies make users choose suboptimal practices.

Designing the next generation of observability tools. There are 5 medium term predictions we will be testing - - slow death of interfaces - Slowly but surely, proprietary interfaces are vanishing. Your AI chat is the interface for everything. Let's call your chat interface Bob, your 24x7 helper. Want to book a meal, ask Bob. For engineers, IDEs like Intellij Idea - one of the best - are slowly giving way to a CLI interface with Bob Code. Fix downtime? Ask Bob. Over time, complex workflows will get delegated. Very few dashboards (if at all) will reach your eyes. - consolidation of tools - While Bob provides a single interface over 100s of services, the cost of doing so increases as the number grows. Anyone with 2 or more observability tools will soon feel the pinch when the agents start consuming 3-4 times more tokens to make sense of things. More importantly, the more databases your agents need to look at, the slower their response will be. Moving to a single unified telemetry platform will be a competitive advantage. - Cambrian explosion of smaller custom systems - The amount of custom software put to production is increasing dramatically. Agents are good at building and managing smaller systems. Custom Software will grow 2-5x YoY for the next 5 years. Barrier to entry is very low. As the cost of building custom systems comes down, the cost of operating custom systems will be the next challenge. Observability plays a pivotal role here, and the cost of observability has to come down for all this to make sense. - focused low-cost agents - For a personal assistant, typically the models would be need to be generally more capable. But smaller systems with singular tasks do not need heavy models. Costly Bob type Agents are already good at managing other cheaper agents with singular tasks. Such agents will need more scaffolding and guardrails. Evals will be decisive, and any observability platform must provide the ability to inform agents and engineers about divergences. - agents treat observability data providers as infrastructure - observability data provides a vital feedback loop. As monitoring moves to agents, the long cycle from that data to SDLC that takes months - add to a backlog, prioritise, build, test, deploy - should be done in minutes with seemingly infinite capacity at hand. As the cycle shortens, agents will need observability system of record as much as they need models and hardware.

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).

Now Amul Milk contains 98X more Coliform than the FSSAI limit. India is basically a durability test of humans 🙏

blog.google/intl/id-id/com… Thank you @Google putting this up.

Read this techinasia.com/read-nadiem-ma… and then read what @rohsting saying

My friend Nadiem Makarim’s trial just began. Nadiem and I worked together at Gojek from 2015-2018, and I have known him since we entered university as 17 year olds. TL;DR: Nadiem Makarim is as clean as they come. I remember when we were running a nationwide driver recruitment campaign at Gojek early on. We began hearing feedback from a few prospective drivers that our field recruitment team was demanding money to enter Gojek. I was shocked and disappointed this was happening. With a social impact mission, drivers should be able to join our platform completely for free. I quickly conveyed to my head of driver operations that if this was not stopped overnight, there would be consequences. The moment I heard similar feedback in the ensuing days, I knew we had to take decisive action, but was curious how Nadiem would respond when I shared the facts with him. “Fire the entire team.” And so within 24 hours we fired the driver operations heads and installed new ones, sending a strong message of integrity. As this flashpoint illustrates, I am certain of Nadiem’s integrity. There is simply no way he has done what he is accused of. Google investing in Gojek was because we built an awesome product loved by customers. The Ministry of Education selecting Chromebook was because Google built an awesome product loved by K12 students and educators alike. That’s it. There is no “conflict of interest”. Just 2 companies delivering highly competitive products loved by users. And to think Google, a company valued in the trillions in market cap, would sully their name by engaging in a conflict of interest deal that is an infinitesimal drop in the bucket for them is hard to fathom. In addition to integrity which Nadiem has in spades, his other trait is cost-consciousness. Being mission-driven over material-driven, even as he amassed wealth, he has always been careful with money. I cannot count the number of micro-moments in which he was said “no” to things that did not surpass his cost-benefit framework. So excuse my wry smile when he is accused of “state losses”. Nadiem’s frugality would have ensured his team negotiated aggressively, to get the best (read cheapest) deal possible. Have a look at page 4-5 of this presentation by IDC comparing costs worldwide of other devices vs Chromebooks. issuu.com/prontomarketin… Depending on how you look at it, Chromebooks achieve 44-61% in savings. SAVINGS. I urge everyone to read this presentation which highlights the many other benefits of Chromebooks vs other devices for the education domain. Please help share this widely, as we collectively support Nadiem’s case for acquittal, so he can be back home where he belongs, with his wife and 4 beautiful children.

Introducing pgX - get 500+ timeseries high res postgres o11y data right next to your application and infra o11y. slowAPI -> slow Query -> connection issues, locks, indexes, cluster and delays, vacuums - without any tool hops. docs.base14.io/blog/introduci…

I think @zerodha team just shuts down servers outside of market hours. Or am I mistaken? when has 0dha console worked for you on a weekend??

MLA spending 70 Lacs just on fireworks at his son's wedding ED must be sleeping 😴

I think in a moment when GitHub’s reputation amongst developers is at an all time low, making the policy change to charge for self hosted runners in any scenario instead of making other technical changes to make GH runners more attractive will go down as a very bad move.