Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server

messaging my wife a link containing proof of her husband cheating on her from an anonymous instagram account and then when she clicks on it texting her to let her know she failed the family phishing test and she has to retake my cybersecurity course

It may seem quaint to manually click through a financial app in the near future. Instead you'll talk to your agent to let it know what you want, and it will prompt you for approvals (or even take some actions on your behalf if you want). Everyone can have their own private banker.

We’re building Coinbase to be the most AI-enabled financial account. Both with a first party interface (Coinbase Advisor) and via third party interfaces (bring your own agent). Trade, pay, borrow, etc - all through your agent, with clear limits and controls.

Our new agents page is live, so you can quickly get started. Check it out: coinbase.com/agents

The attitude we desperately need in Tech

"We can fix everything."

This has become one of the mottos of @omarchy, and it represents a fundamental shift in how we think about our operating systems.

On Windows and macOS, we're used to countless papercuts, annoying bugs, and downright idiotic design decisions. Most of the e can do about them. We find workarounds and eventually learn to live with the frustration.

Omarchy changes that. If something annoys you, FIX IT! Your OS should adapt to you, not the other way around.

And thanks to AI coding agents, you don't even need to be an experienced developer anymore. Anyone can make these changes.

Once you get used to fixing things instead of putting up with them, it's hard to go back.

if this PHP vulnerability allows remote code execution, doesn't that mean we can use the vulnerability to auto-patch all vulnerable servers?

So clever.

Introducing Motherload — import data files from TypeScript with full type information 🪎

Powered by TypeScript 7.1's content mappers (now in beta)

🪎 .md
🪎 .toml
🪎 .yaml
🪎 .csv / .tsv
🪎 .jsonc / .json5
🪎 .txt
🪎 .env

Two weeks ago I kicked off a loop to move OpenClaw's Lit-based Web frontend to Solid 2.0.

Took ~6 days until we could remove Lit, and another week to move patterns to idiomatic Solid.

I checked in with the session every other day, overall the process was mostly automatic. Took : Smaller JS and CSS footprint and much more fine-grained update control. Everything feeling more snappy and responsive. team.openclaw.ai/chat/roboclaw/…

North sentinel island. Uncontacted tribe. Technically part of India.

Boats drive by sometimes.

Earth. Uncontacted. Technically part of Milky Way galaxy. We set off nukes. UFOs fly by more often.
youtube.com/shorts/GkjviiG…

Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.

Just a reminder about something I said a few years back: “addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.” “Enlightenment (for lack of a better term) is a progressive expansion of what brings your pleasure.”
Are you addicted to something? If so, what?

I love seeing other people who care about performance gather around @solid_js. Amazing work @chiefcll on taking SolidTV to 2.0:

solidtv.dev/blog/renderer-…

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) says Marc Benioff is letting Claude own Salesforce's front end, and risking disintermediation on purpose:

"He is integrating Salesforce into Claude. He's willing to allow Claude to be the front end, to have the sort of the primary user relationship."
nioff here is willing to risk disintermediation in order to ride this AI wave because he knows it's what the customer ultimately wants."

"You don't want to go into Salesforce or any SaaS application to write your agents. You want to create agents in the AI program that you're using. And you want those agents to be able to run across all of your SaaS platforms."

"Why is this ultimately good for his business and not bad is because, like I said, I still think that you need systems of record. You need the AI agents to basically go to those systems, get the data from a canonical source of truth. You just don't want there to be any probabilistic variability around that."

"It's not a rip and replace."

"Benioff is saying that the AI is now the user interface. He's basically acknowledging that he's leaning into it."

- David Sacks, All-In co-host, on the All-In Podcast episode published August 29, three days after Salesforce and Anthropic announced their Claudeforce partnership.

Imagine your modern software pauses to garbage collect while you're in the middle of Doing a Barrel Roll in your car.

1. A student from Waterloo emailed me asking for advice

2. Replied

3. Got an AI-generated reply, very clearly templated

4. Looked back: the original email was probably AI-written

5. This is how you wreck cold email for everyone else, even from univesity domains

Dead internet

they will say "we are AI-first company" and you can't even run two instances of their app on your computer

The things that happen in this world

The new Tesla Roadster does a “kickflip” over a fleet of Tesla vehicles.

The stunt comes seconds after the vehicle launched off a massive ramp and flipped in midair before landing on the ground.

Rent seeking can go to New extremes