Christopher Phillips

Our biggest open-source repos are getting overwhelmed by AI slop which literally makes Github unusable (~a new pull request every 3 minutes). Fun new challenges in an agentic world!

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It's so insanely disrespectful for an AI agent to talk to real people without consent or at least disclosure. This is the type of stuff I'm hugely supportive of government regulation. The FCC must expand the definition of robocalling and TCPA-style regulation to online AI.

Anyone and everyone working in security engineering or caring about security have their work cut out for them We’re so early in AI agents pushing code to prod without human intervention - but prompt injections are already spreading like wildfire. Infecting high-profile projects

Ahhhh, Codex 5.3 (xhigh) with a vague prompt just solved a bug that I and others have been struggling to fix for over 6 months. Other reasoning levels with Codex failed, Opus 4.6 failed. Cost $4.14 and 45 minutes. Full trace plus includes original issue: ampcode.com/threads/T-019c… I know this prompt is relatively bad. Honestly, our stable release is in a week, and I was throwing some Hail Marys at the frontier models to see if I could get a clean, understandable fix for some of these bugs. By using `gh`, it grabs much better context from the issue, so its not terrible. The best thing that Codex did was eventually start reading GTK4 source code. That's where I ended up (see my GH issue), and I knew the answer was somewhere in there, but I didn't have the time or motivation to do it myself. The other models never went there, and lower reasoning efforts with 5.3 didn't go there either. Only xhigh went there. I think that was a critical difference. The final fix was decent. It was small, all in a single file, and very understandable. It had one bug I identified (you can see in the trace), and then I manually cleaned up some style. But, it did a great job. Definitely an "it's so over" moment. But at the same time, it feels amazing because now our next stable release will have this fix and I was able to spend the time working on other fixes as it went.

⚠️ Developers, please be careful when installing Homebrew. Google is serving sponsored links to a Homebrew site clone that has a cURL command to malware. The URL for this site is one letter different than the official site.

@unusual_whales You might run into the opposite scenario where debt spending is correct and congress is incentivized against it. Probably needs more nuance of a time threshold “if it’s ever above 3 percent for some amount of time then they’re ineligible” The above keeps it more elastic

Warren Buffett has said: "I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election." Do you agree with him?

@Andercot Where is my flying car is probably the best discussion on this. It’s not too late, but it’s 99% a political/social problem. press.stripe.com/where-is-my-fl…

The Climate Crisis was caused by environmentalists who thought nuclear power was bad for the environment. This is what they stole from us.

@unusual_whales Memories are too short. These kinds of lawsuits are in such bad faith. Thry know how much their balance sheets improve if the test is eliminated. It’s not about the legality or efficacy of the safe guards. It’s just another capital investment to increase their bottom line.

BREAKING: The biggest banks are planning to sue the Federal Reserve over the annual bank stress tests, per CNBC. The Fed's stress test is an annual ritual that forces banks to maintain adequate cushions for bad loans and dictates the size of share repurchases and dividends.

A very sincere thank you to all the contributors to our open-source projects. Your work makes a difference every day. 🙏 youtube.com/watch?v=0ciqJx… #opensource #sbom #vulnerability

We here in New Jersey are at our wits end with the complete absence of answers on drone activity over our neighborhoods. The federal government should either explain if these are our government’s assets in practice or, if these are truly unknown flights, responsibly remove one from sky for examination. Either option would lead us to an answer- and the public is rightfully demanding closure here. Nothing about what is occurring is acceptable. Governor Murphy and President Biden need to step up right now.

Very early work but making it so the Ghostty icon on macOS dynamically changes to match your custom color scheme. This icon is rasterized at runtime. If you change your theme it updates in real-time. A diagram of how this works attached. Definitely a terminal first. 👻 This is unfortunately macOS only because macOS has native APIs for changing the icon at runtime. Linux/GTK doesn't have any way to do this right now besides modifying files on disk (that are probably in non-writeable locations and cached anyways).

We're chatting with @mitchellh tomorrow all about Ghostty! What would you ask him, if given the opportunity? 🤔

We're seven days into #AdventOfCode 2024! Have you learned anything new about your programming language / tool / editor of choice?

The only real programming language benchmark is whether your product earns more money than competitors

Use SCA tools? @NCState researchers want to hear about your experience! ⏰45-minute interview study on software composition analysis. 💰 $60 compensation is offered. 🙊 All responses are anonymous. Details: s3c2.org/studies/sca-us… #SecurityResearch #AppSec

Devs confuse feeling busy with productivity. 1 hour of non-stop coding somehow feels more productive than 15 minutes of thinking followed by 15 minutes of coding. But it’s not more productive.

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free and in whatever programming language you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Today and every day, let’s remember the importance of giving back and showing our gratitude to those who have given us so much.

Here is an example of an S-tier bug report. This is a complicated problem and without a reproduction this issue probably would've stagnated for months. But since this bug report was so good, the bug was fixed within a few hours of this being reported. I really can't stress how much this helps everyone: - Reporter gets their bug fixed fast - Maintainer and reporter don't waste time going back and forth trying to figure out what's going on - Community gets more stable software - Community benefits from maintainers being able to spend more time on more issues