This is not hypothetical. People are already reporting lost files, emptied working trees, and wiped home directories after giving AI tools ordinary machine access. There’s a gap between giving an agent your real account and stopping everything to build a … Read more
Pro tip: sign up for the business/enterprise version when reasonable in price. I do this with Google Workspace. You can also do it with GitHub. (Google doesn’t train on Workspace, Github doesn’t train on business customers, etc) This headline is … Read more
I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces … Read more
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity. … Read more
Let’s talk about that moment when AI output shows up unsolicited in a human interaction. It happens a bit much for my taste. What should the etiquette be? I’ve arrived at a principle I call: Don’t make me talk to … Read more
Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he’d been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role. He planned to decline it, but wanted to hear my take first. Until recently, my answer in such conversations was … Read more
When you’re building with AI agents, they should be treated as untrusted and potentially malicious. Whether you’re worried about prompt injection, a model trying to escape its sandbox, or something nobody’s thought of yet, regardless of what your threat model … Read more
Why am I writing this today? Because I am deeply concerned about users losing their most sacred data. Over the past year or two, I’ve seen many organizations, large and small, implement passkeys (which is great, thank you!) and use … Read more
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and dozens of other services. Give it a task over chat, and it executes shell commands, browses the web, reads and writes files, and calls APIs on … Read more
I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub. I sent it the current draft of my booklet on inflation, to see what it can offer. I just used it … Read more