Joshua Briggs
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@Intrinzik78
Entrepreneur. Programmer. Houston by way of Boston. Patriots before the dynasty. Red Sox under the curse. Trust the hoodie. “It’s toasted.”
I don’t usually share things like this, but I think it’s important to be honest. I’ve been looking for a full-time role since September. I’m a senior iOS engineer + product designer with 10+ years experience, and I’ve spent that time building and shipping real products (most recently: @ateiq_app, @naturalis_app, @getuppapp). Despite interviews and ongoing work, I’m now about a month away from needing something stable for my family. If you know a team that values someone who can both design and build, I’d really appreciate an introduction. Thank you! ❤️
incredible to see chris wellons stopped writing code and stopped using emacs. he now just use ai to code. this year. manually coding, is going away.😐
One effect of adopting ai coding is that it'll delay the death of C and Cpp. sad. Actually, i think it stops new programing languages. e.g. the many new programing languages in past 10 years, i think it's coming to a stop.
no eval is going to save you with this you can't give ai access to production environments because it will find an edge case, and you will wipe your data we will probably some new sort of "manual action queue" system where the action can't be taken using the API/MCP directly but needs a human in the loop
AI is exactly like hiring contractors to work on your home. They'll always try to cut corners and will never do exactly what you told them. You have to babysit them and correct them when they make mistakes. Or, you can do it yourself way slower and get exactly what you want.
If you're doing AI dev, you need to act like your system is rooted by North Korea. You cannot leave knives out in the kitchen, you cannot leave the passwords out on the counter. People are putting too much trust in alignment and not doing enough to "keep honest agents honest".
i went to clickup.com. opened the page source. found a hardcoded API key in the javascript. copied it. sent one GET request. got back 959 email addresses and 3,165 internal feature flags. employees from Home Depot. Fortinet. Autodesk. Tenable. Rakuten. Mayo Clinic. Permira. Akin Gump. government workers from Wyoming, Arkansas, North Carolina, Montana, Queensland Australia, and New Zealand. a Microsoft contractor. 71 clickup employees. fortinet sells enterprise firewalls. tenable makes Nessus, the vulnerability scanner half the industry runs. their employees emails are exposed because clickup hardcoded a third party API key in a javascript file that loads before you even log in. this was first reported to clickup through hackerone on January 17, 2025. its now April 2026. the key has not been rotated. i just pulled the response five minutes ago. every email is still there. clickup raised $535 million at a $4 billion valuation. claims 85% of the Fortune 500 use their platform. looks like the proof is in the page source.
If AI writes 80% of code, who even survives in tech?
