Max Howell

Developers have become the new secrets vault. The biggest supply chain attacks of 2026 didn't start by attacking production. They started by attacking developer laptops. - TanStack - Nx Console - Bitwarden CLI - LiteLLM - durabletask The malware all looked for the same things: ~/.ssh ~/.aws ~/.config/gh .env kubeconfig Terraform credentials AI agent configs The path is now: Developer Laptop → Credentials → Production We're still securing servers like it's 2015. Attackers moved on years ago. @AutomicVault fixes this.

In the next version of Package Manager Manager, manage packages (from any ecosystem) on your other Macs (as well as your main, obv.) mxcl.dev/package-manage…

Distance is irrelevant. Who the fuck cares how far away something is? I want to know how long it will take to get there. Something can be 0.5 miles away and take 30 minutes to traverse due to the traffic of the city.

@RitaPanahi A billion? Preposterous. Blocked.

ABC claiming it's "climate change" and not Islam or third world cultural practices behind the scourge of child marriage. Reminder: ABC receives more than a billion in taxpayer funds annually.

@ericlu Yes but now you owe me for a bottle of paracetamol

I created a font called Ghost Font that only humans can read. Tested it in Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra and neither was able to decipher it correctly.

@HPluckrose Yeah agreed. I hate that. Everything else about US service however is so amazingly good though that I can forgive it.

What is this thing in America where wait staff feel the need to continually interrupt conversations to ask how we’re doing & if everything is OK? Seems like bad strategy. Surely people would stay longer and buy more drinks if they were allowed to get into conversation?

@Kronogen @dioscuri It's just as likely the you that put you here wants you to get to some event as they want it to be real and thus if you off yourself it's game over but the you here is about to merged into the you outside this simulation.

@dioscuri what actual impulse precipitates from that? i literally am the main character and should take infinitely more risk?

cmon how can YOU, a person living through the singularity, read this and not draw the obvious conclusion

@JohnCSullivan74 @dioscuri I think simulation theorists assume infinite simulations.

@dioscuri Simulation theory is possible, but if we are a simulation, then that still requires a first mover somewhere in the backward induction chain. Also, given the limits of imagination, we are probably simulated in a subset of the laws of nature that govern the original reality

@jjainschigg @dioscuri How are you jumping to “we are the ASIs”?

Makes no sense at all. Given the technologies described, we ARE the ASIs. Why would it be necessary or desirable not to extend the self as far as 'selves' can be extended? Unless there were some kinds of experience that couldn't be had without taking on finiteness (e.g., being small, embodied, still having a concept of 'mortality')?

@davepl1968 I just asked a dozen people if they thought there was a need for women in chess and they all said: “Nobody gives a shit about chess. Now leave me alone I'm enjoying my lunch, nerd.”

The "need" for women's chess is fairly simple to explain. Women comprise about 8% of chess players, meaning there are at least 12 men for every woman competing. And when you're "selecting" amazing individuals near the tails of any competence distribution, it's not the averages you care about - it's the exceptional individuals. And the reality is that simply through greater participation, men throw about 12x as many people at the problem, and so the odds are that the top players will be male. And they are, no surprise to the math. Now, if you NEVER saw exceptional women, it would be different. But women have been ranked as high as 2735, which is ludicrously high. So they exist; they're just very rare by comparison, as you would expect. If the roles were reversed (by a factor of 144x, mind you), it's pretty easy to conclude women would then be on top. In other words, it tells you very little about the comparative distributions of male vs female geniuses when the populations are of massively different sizes. This is my daughter, who just beat me yesterday. I'm not rated, but she must be pretty good :-)

@mattshumer_ @MFrancis107 Yeah zero chance whatsoever that other models will do this. Zero. ZERO.

@MFrancis107 Basically “get xyz done” I’ve never seen anything like this. Will only be using Fable moving forward.

GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac’s files. And this is why I trust Fable 1000x more.

@athiestboi get a fucking clue moron

Nerds don’t get that ChatGPT was the much bigger brand.

@_dylanga Dunno about you but I can tell if a graph is faked or not with an interview.

Do people not know GitHub history is able to be fully fabricated? These squares mean literally nothing.

@emilkowalski TAKE MY MONEY

New skill: /apple-design Apple’s WWDC videos are a goldmine of knowledge. I’ve combed through my favorite ones and came up with 17 design and motion principles. Use them to review existing work or when working on something new to get it right. github.com/emilkowalski/s…

@IterIntellectus The horses started driving the tractors don’t you know.

i see too much of this > "AI is going to take all jobs" > "no that's not going to happen!!1" > "why" > "well, because [some completely different technology] didn't take all our jobs!

@benhylak you have opinions then

i've been using the new chatgpt codex app thing for the last ~13 minutes. and i absolutely hate it. the purple, the name, everything.

@thsottiaux I can't recall Theo ever being right about anything so…

Or a generational run. We will continue to make tweaks and we have a TON coming for developers. Meanwhile traffic yesterday sat at ~2X previous peak, team is scrambling to keep everything up and reliable. Time will tell, but I have conviction that attempting to build the one interface to AGI is worthwhile.

@JamesZmSun k well fine. But I need a Safari extension then. Spend some tokens. You have them.

Lastly, with all these updates, we are going to be sunsetting Atlas. All these capabilities were built on what we learned from Atlas users who took a leap of faith on a new browser. You taught us how agents can help make browsing and doing work on the open web better, and we are applying these learnings to these new products. The current targeted date for deprecation is 8/9, and we'll share more information in the upcoming days both in-app and via email. Thank you all for your support and we hope you love these new features!

Big drop today with 5.6, ChatGPT work, brand new desktop app, and more! The browser team's been working hard on 3 big updates for today: 1) A more fully functional in-app browser inside the new Desktop App 2) A cloud browser that the agent can use on the go inside the new work mode on Chatgpt.com & app 3) Side chat that brings the full power of ChatGPT & Codex to your browser