Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
If your wallet of choice isn’t @ambire and it runs Ledger’s latest signing kit, chances are every signature you make gets reported back to Ledger.
I noticed it early while bumping Ledger packages to debug an issue! No affected version ever reached Аmbire production, and we’re default, with an opt-in toggle in the privacy settings 🛡️
However, the devil was that it was sneakily enabled by default in the Ledger SDK since their ledgerhq/context-module v1.16... So right after the lib update - every transaction you sign with a Ledger device started sending to blind-signing.api.ledger.com the network, the contract or recipient address, device model and firmware, app versions and whether you signed blind.
I'd argue that privacy should be the default, @Ledger 💪
Happy to see more and more people becoming aware of the privacy implications and picking Ambire for our ongoing privacy focus.
Catching things like this 👀 is part of the job for us!
I noticed it early while bumping Ledger packages to debug an issue! No affected version ever reached Аmbire production, and we’re default, with an opt-in toggle in the privacy settings 🛡️
However, the devil was that it was sneakily enabled by default in the Ledger SDK since their ledgerhq/context-module v1.16... So right after the lib update - every transaction you sign with a Ledger device started sending to blind-signing.api.ledger.com the network, the contract or recipient address, device model and firmware, app versions and whether you signed blind.
I'd argue that privacy should be the default, @Ledger 💪
Happy to see more and more people becoming aware of the privacy implications and picking Ambire for our ongoing privacy focus.
Catching things like this 👀 is part of the job for us!
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
Every piece of software you hate was made by humans.
Your bank’s app that logs you out every 90 seconds.
The airline website that crashes at checkout.
The tax portal that only works in one browser.
The printer driver from hell.
The hospital system that loses your records between two buildings.
100% human-made. Handcrafted. Artisanal slop. Written, reviewed, tested and shipped by professionals with years of experience.
And these are the same people now warning us about the quality of AI code.
Brother, we’ve been living inside your code for 30 years.
We know exactly what human quality looks like.
Your bank’s app that logs you out every 90 seconds.
The airline website that crashes at checkout.
The tax portal that only works in one browser.
The printer driver from hell.
The hospital system that loses your records between two buildings.
100% human-made. Handcrafted. Artisanal slop. Written, reviewed, tested and shipped by professionals with years of experience.
And these are the same people now warning us about the quality of AI code.
Brother, we’ve been living inside your code for 30 years.
We know exactly what human quality looks like.
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Remember when almost every AI generated security report was hallucinated slop? Yea, good times...
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
Human slop is infinitely worse than AI slop.
Claude Opus 5.5 can write better code than 99% of developers, yet people who have spent their careers shipping buggy, insecure garbage want to lecture us about code quality.
Maybe you’re not worried about AI slop.
Maybe you’re worried that the “slop generator” is magnitudes better at your job than you are.
Claude Opus 5.5 can write better code than 99% of developers, yet people who have spent their careers shipping buggy, insecure garbage want to lecture us about code quality.
Maybe you’re not worried about AI slop.
Maybe you’re worried that the “slop generator” is magnitudes better at your job than you are.
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software has always been about automating stuff using computers, and now that we're seeing a revolution, ironically so many programmers became disillusioned with coding and jaded ("software isn't interesting anymore because its easy to create")
mf the first computer scientists have DREAMED about a future of programming by natural language. get your shit together.
mf the first computer scientists have DREAMED about a future of programming by natural language. get your shit together.
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
been increasingly impressed with Ambire
the wallet market is bifurcating imo:
on one side, neobanks abstracting many crypto complexities away
on the other, general purpose wallets built for hardcore onchain users who actually care about self-custody, privacy and control.
Ambire is firmly targeting the latter.
no user tracking. deep commitment to open source. safe multisig by default. and now, a native hardware signer.
what I’m most excited about, though, is their upcoming integration of private transfers.
pre-ordered one
the wallet market is bifurcating imo:
on one side, neobanks abstracting many crypto complexities away
on the other, general purpose wallets built for hardcore onchain users who actually care about self-custody, privacy and control.
Ambire is firmly targeting the latter.
no user tracking. deep commitment to open source. safe multisig by default. and now, a native hardware signer.
what I’m most excited about, though, is their upcoming integration of private transfers.
pre-ordered one
Introducing Ambire Ice: The hardware wallet built for @safe.
Private
Fully open-source
Quantum ready
Perfect clear signing
Ambire’s extension and mobile app, now with a dedicated hardware device.
Pre-order yours: ambire.com/ice
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software is not dead but commoditized
and yes, over time, when building for PmF, a skilled person will do WAY better at steering an AI, precisely because they can assess tradeoffs and know what's easy and what's hard; those things compound
sure, anyone can spawn a Evernote clone, but not everyone can build great stuff
and yes, over time, when building for PmF, a skilled person will do WAY better at steering an AI, precisely because they can assess tradeoffs and know what's easy and what's hard; those things compound
sure, anyone can spawn a Evernote clone, but not everyone can build great stuff
Software is not dead. Here's my unfiltered, honest opinion about using AI for SWE, even in highly complex domains.
It's true that AI is good. Like really good. You can open a complex project in C++, give your Claude Code agent a JIRA task and ask it to create an implementation plan. And it will "almost" work.
As in 95% of it will be correct. So you can literally be a dumb sloperator who just executes commands. But in the remaining 5% it truly matters.
AI can educate you about trade-offs. It can't decide for you. You have to learn that decision-making skill.
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
A big indicator of good software engineering taste for me is how well they handle slow/disconnected Internet.
You'll find some apps just magically hide network partition from the end user. Classic Twitter was like that. Spotify used to do this so well. Google Docs app still does it pretty well.
You can just keep doing what you're doing, 80% of the functionality keeps working, 20% things that dont work are abstracted away neatly, things reconcile beautifully in the background.
So many of the apps that used to do it well have turned into slop fests now. Twitter has all sorts of jank and layout shifts when Internet reconnects.
Spotify almost just doesn't work offline at all now. Multiple screens just are stuck, do not scroll, or the app crashes on patchy Internet.
You'll find some apps just magically hide network partition from the end user. Classic Twitter was like that. Spotify used to do this so well. Google Docs app still does it pretty well.
You can just keep doing what you're doing, 80% of the functionality keeps working, 20% things that dont work are abstracted away neatly, things reconcile beautifully in the background.
So many of the apps that used to do it well have turned into slop fests now. Twitter has all sorts of jank and layout shifts when Internet reconnects.
Spotify almost just doesn't work offline at all now. Multiple screens just are stuck, do not scroll, or the app crashes on patchy Internet.
We put a disgusting amount of effort into this
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
ethereum could cure cancer and people would be mad it because now oncologists are out of a job
social attacks so cheap right
don't love 7702 but never ceases to amuse that people will FUD ethereum UX for requiring two-step swaps. So ethereum let people turn wallets into contracts to do that "behold....batch txs"
Now batch txs are bad because yeah you can batch hacks too.
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yep, a wallet you can manufacture yourself
@ambire Ice，一个 DIY 以太坊硬件钱包。
它不只是卖你一台钱包，而是把 Gerber、BOM、Pick & Place 和 3D 打印文件全部开放。
你把 PCB 交给 JLCPCB 制造，打印外壳、安装屏幕和摄像头，最终组装出硬件钱包。
这让我想到 @SeedSigner、@selfcustodykrux @SpecterDIY 。
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frens who know us, know that some of the ambire team races cars in their spare time (actual ambire team racecar pictured)
i'll avoid this turning into a linkedin ahh post about teambuilding, instead i'll list what we get out of it that may not be super obvious
- hyperobsessive rsport is about engineering, even the driving is. Most people think adrenaline and bravery because of hollywood, but racing cars is actually just as calculated as shipping a good wallet. just look up traction circle, string theory, tire load sensitivity, etc...
- reminds of the painful cost of the back-burner (low priority); we don't work on our car personally, but simply coordinating this effort and managing preparation is taking 10-100x more time than it would if it had our full attention; because racing is an occasional past-time for us, we don't put much focus, so by the time a decision is made, it may no longer be relevant or we might've forgotten why its required;; its the same for back-burner wallet features...
- our brand aesthetics are validated positively. everyone loves how our brand looks
- we are hyper optimisooors. chasing tenths/hundreds scratches the same itch that making software near-perfect does. But we can't afford to hyper-optimise software, because that's not compatible with shipping
i'll avoid this turning into a linkedin ahh post about teambuilding, instead i'll list what we get out of it that may not be super obvious
- hyperobsessive rsport is about engineering, even the driving is. Most people think adrenaline and bravery because of hollywood, but racing cars is actually just as calculated as shipping a good wallet. just look up traction circle, string theory, tire load sensitivity, etc...
- reminds of the painful cost of the back-burner (low priority); we don't work on our car personally, but simply coordinating this effort and managing preparation is taking 10-100x more time than it would if it had our full attention; because racing is an occasional past-time for us, we don't put much focus, so by the time a decision is made, it may no longer be relevant or we might've forgotten why its required;; its the same for back-burner wallet features...
- our brand aesthetics are validated positively. everyone loves how our brand looks
- we are hyper optimisooors. chasing tenths/hundreds scratches the same itch that making software near-perfect does. But we can't afford to hyper-optimise software, because that's not compatible with shipping
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
I don't think the market is really comprehending what @ambire is pulling off. One of the best things about this industry is the edge can be so obvious.
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Ivo 7702/acc retweeted
Introducing Ambire Ice: The hardware wallet built for @safe.
Private
Fully open-source
Quantum ready
Perfect clear signing
Ambire’s extension and mobile app, now with a dedicated hardware device.
Pre-order yours: ambire.com/ice
Private
Fully open-source
Quantum ready
Perfect clear signing
Ambire’s extension and mobile app, now with a dedicated hardware device.
Pre-order yours: ambire.com/ice
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we chose to start with Safe not only because I believe that multisigs are goated (check @borislavItskovv's posts on the topic) but also as a trial before we enable traditional EOAs
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