Brian Sowards (he/they)

The “delay Mythos so cybersecurity can prepare” crowd believes companies proactively invest in cybersecurity to defend against future threats. You sweet summer child.

happy net positive human producer day and getting called “Father” by my daughter who watched too many peppa pig episodes

@LoganTGott i like what you are doing but please, don’t use “BREAKING:” or similar hook bs you’ve got valuable stuff its not making it go viral anyway please don’t make me block you from my feed 😭

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@thsottiaux its more app adjacent, but i live on Codex Remote and would really love for a setting to make it my default when i open the chatgpt app

What should we improve in the Codex app. What's not delightful?

@emollick i’m not sure what you intend i use them for that kind of knowledge work daily, directly in the way you describe (research, compare, try things, learn, adapt, document, repeat to refine) it is *by* doing that i build skill files that can autoproduce components and outputs

A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very "software-brained" where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as a source of truth. For a lot of other knowledge work, the process is at least as important as the outcome. This includes researching what is known, an exploration of alternatives, failed efforts, prototype branches, experiments, etc. All of those things are valuable, so you cannot use the PowerPoint at the end the way you can use a codebase, nor is progress on a to-do list sufficient context post compaction. You work in learning loops, refining your perspectives as you go. In some ways, this makes long-running models like Fable hard to use for deep knowledge work, since they are designed to deliver product to you in the end. You can prompt your way around this problem, but everything about the Codex and Code harnesses want you to be a software developer and you have to fight them. There is a real disconnect between how a manager or analyst thinks about problems and how the agentic software tools approach solving them. Addressing this is critical to breaking out of the coding niche for these tools.

i appreciate the concern, but I’m posting my story for those with adrenal disregulation/complex PTSD cold plunges brought me back from cortisol overload i lived locked in my body with a constant taste of metal in my mouth, my nerves feeling like they were on fire, hypervigilant from the moment i awoke with a panic attack every day cold plunges + wim hof breathing was how i found freedom its not for everyone, i get that what it provided for me was a somatic experience equal to the one i lived with daily i did two things that i think made a big diff: 1. i chose it. i did not treat it as an endurance challenge. i would say “i love myself unconditionally” then jump in/plunge. i used wim hof. i learned this at a meditation retreat with holding ice as a breathing exercise, applied it to my whole body 2. i did small doses (just jump in and out to start) and grew to 20min over time now, I enjoy it. I want a full 20 minutes. i feel completely liberated by it. i’ve also experimented with alternating with sauna/hot tub for an adrenaline flush and that’s been good as well maybe no one else needs to take this path, but i’m sharing it just in case it was choosing an experience that matched the one i felt powerless to escape surrendering into it and caring for myself through it those skills have grown over time

Cold plunges are unhealthy. If you are already stressed, sleeping poorly, going for runs, overtraining and running on cortisol, cold exposure adds more of the same stress hormone you already have too much of. Cold is a reliable cortisol and adrenaline activator. For a man with adrenal dysregulation it just compounds the problem. Hot baths do the opposite: > Discharge accumulated adrenal tension > Shift the nervous system from sympathetic to parasympathetic > Improve sleep quality > Relax the whole body If you enjoyed this post, you can subscribe to my free newsletter like 120 others for more in depth articles like these (link in bio)

@alexkaybuilds oh I do! just working at getting gud at it

@briansowards Yes. Building without documenting is just working in the dark. You should. 😉

I just published Pretty-PR 2.0: The one that lives on. medium.com/p/pretty-pr-th…

@scottastevenson we cant, they didnt give us mythos

If you don’t have experience with offensive security, you don’t understand how great this threat is IMO. The key ingredient in hacking is not brilliance, but time and patience. Security does not rely on perfection. It relies on no hacker being able to justify the time and patience for the reward. A hacker with infinite time and patience will eventually find a crack. And AI has infinite time and patience. Every company needs to be running offensive agents against itself 24/7. Agents that self-repair security issues will be the next phase.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

@MelkeyDev i use it for video game questions because it uses youtube to answer

I don’t use any Gemini model except flash for cheap inference on simpler tasks

@OverReactor1776 @Andsarcasmtoo @RealDeanCain want to educate people on that - where send?

@briansowards @Andsarcasmtoo @RealDeanCain Extremely low.

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species. Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty. Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve. As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers. I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing. If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own. My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!) Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future? America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

@ABTapper @msg elite quip

@msg 🐢 🐢 🐢

making software to make software to help others make software

@michael_chomsky more sane than what weve got

this is insane

@engineers_feed because parking lots are a fragmented good ole boys network, mostly friends/entourage of commercial developers which is why we all live in the Fred Flinstone era while people in China can just drive in and out without toll booths

About 5.5% of developed land in the continental United States is covered by parking lots! Why not cover all of those with solar panels? Shadow for cars and electricity for people.

@charlietlamb fake news

Am I the only software engineer who hasn't watched a minute of Anime

@thekitze ok 4 realz tho? u love it?

@AaronxShepherd accurate and compact many GTM experts have no idea how critical this stack is

nobody on EARTH books 50 calls a month from cold email alone lol anyone who claims their “13-step GTM workflow” does so is lying through their teeth you have to chain mechanisms instead if you wanna survive. 1) map the segments and size each market 2) write 6 to 7 offers per persona 3) first 90 days, do nothing but crack cold email 4) then layer linkedin and cold calling on top 5) keep warm calling running through all of it trust me when i say THIS is where things are headed.

bad nanny

please @thsottiaux this should happen on codex remote

@Dimillian @nunezvice i need to join @OpenAI so i can get this

@nunezvice Look on the slack :)

Here is the combat system in action #NotMakingAnMMORPG