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So it turns out the Agile stuff we all got tired of hearing about is actually the playbook for working with AI agents.

I'm as surprised as you are.

miren.dev/blog/agile-in-the-age-of-ai

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.

That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

Boy reports someone stole gun he brought to Brooklyn Center school; police come and arrest them both The gun came from a home where it was properly stored, police said.

America: Where a 13-year-old can bring a gun to his middle school, but also “The gun came from a home where it was properly stored, police said.”

www.startribune.com/gun-brought-...

YouTube comment of the year

👨‍🍳💋 alex000kim.com/posts/2026-0...

The AI is getting a little *too* realistic and human-like.

It really feels to me like folks are a bit insecure about the fact that they're delivering markdown files, and these sites try to add additional gravitas.

Next you’re gonna tell me my security vulnerability doesn’t need full brand presentation

One of my favorite books.

If you liked it, Blake Crouch’s other books are great too.

Funny enough I’m only meh on his big Wayward Pines trilogy but I loved Abandon, Run, and Recursion.

So it's a meme where there's two people in a bus. They're sitting opposite sides. One of them is looking at rocks because they're driving up the mountain. And he looks very sad and disturbed. And he's thinking "tailor-made software is a commodity now". And then there's the other guy sitting opposite who's looking at a beautiful landscape with the sun kissing the mountains. And a little river nestled amongst the peaks. And he's thinking: "tailor-made software is a commodity now".

What a world, yo.

That’s pretty neat! How do you even reissue like that?

Seeing an "Excellent work on $thetask" message given to a subagent on shutdown from the lead has me....confused? Uneasy?

It’s worse. The answers weren’t on Google, they were in a binary file on GitHub that was XOR-encrypted to make it impossible to Google. The AI decided it must be a benchmark; systematically went through benchmarks; downloaded the file (which it shouldn’t have been able to do); and decrypted it.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

--Edsger Dijkstra

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

It's a --dangerously-skip-permissions kind of day

The Factory Model: How Coding Agents Changed Software Engineering Software engineering is not about writing code anymore. It is about building the factory that builds your software.

The Factory Model: How Coding Agents Changed Software Engineering - addyosmani.com/blog/factory...

It's felt for months now that the fed govt is doing everything it can, including acts of violence, to make the Twin Cities unlivable. Vance's announcement shows that effort continues even if Trump's thugs aren't killing people in the street rn. I just don't see how this can go on for 3 more years.

Sigh

The lawyers in the banking industry are gonna have so much fun with this.

Claude/LLMs could write COBOL eons (relatively) ago but it's taken the market until now to suddenly panic (likely erroneously) about it?

smh

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

I usually rant about bullshit normalizing headlines from @npr.org so I should give credit where it’s due for an accurate, appropriate one. Nice work.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Feeling fairly accomplished as I've now moved completely off of Google; Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, domain registrar and DNS, etc in favor of out of country, end-to-end encrypted and zero-access solutions.

It's been long overdue to start caring more about personal data sovereignty and privacy.

As a principled libertarian, I voted for Trump and supported all of his attacks on free speech and civil rights until it became clear that Trumpism had no political future

ICE all over Northside this morning. Almost like they need to get their shift in before the Super Bowl.

Ok, this is actually incredible.

"And yes, it can run Doom"