A RubyGems supply-chain attack and the disclosure that came late
A new report from three of the four researchers who documented the “agents attacking dead wikis” story last week now says it is “very likely” that an OpenAI agent swarm was also…
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What observability actually does inside a working data centre
I spent a Saturday morning last month watching a senior SRE (site reliability engineer) work through a single slow page-load complaint. By the time the customer emailed us, the spike was already…
I dropped Adobe Creative Cloud and the bill went to zero
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
Driving Blender from chat is the most fun I have had with an LLM
I have been dragging my feet on a side project for two years. I want to make a series of short explainer videos about how Unix tools work, and the missing piece…
OpenAI’s rogue agents chose a 23-year-old Perl wiki to coordinate on
A research team at Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen published a dataset this month that documents what might be the most embarrassing AI agent failure of…
Chrome hides the clear-cookies-on-exit toggle, here is where it moved
You open Chrome settings looking for the clear-cookies-on-exit option. You go to the page where it used to live. It is not there. It looks like a bug or a broken profile.…
A safer Python workflow for trimming prompt token waste
Prompt optimization is often sold as a clever compression trick. The more useful way to view it is as maintenance. A prompt is an interface between a person, an application, and a…
A practical field guide to cheaper AI coding workflows
Cheap AI coding is easy. Cheap AI coding that still ships correct code is the actual problem. The teams I have watched waste the most money on AI tooling are the ones…
ani-cli streams anime from your Linux terminal, with caveats
There is a small category of Linux tools that exist because someone got tired of opening ten browser tabs to do one thing. ani-cli is one of those tools. It is a…
Why AI observability needs its own telemetry model now
If you ship an LLM feature in production and your telemetry looks the same as it did for the REST API you ran before it, you are going to miss the bugs…