Denis M

[Denis M @DenisM]

FSD in @Tesla feels much like coding with Codex/Claude - you just dont want to get back doing that manually.

[Denis M @DenisM]

A company wide agent could just be a repo with skills (those shared workflows likely being just skill’s scripts) and a curated set of MCPs

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/R6exTuF7P8

[Caleb Gross @noperator]

https://t.co/gOSvgSg8kv

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

SSH access is easy to set up on a one-off basis, but it gets harder to keep things tidy as more machines and users are added.

Bastion hosts help to some extent, but long-lived keys tend to leak, manual user offboarding is painful, and compromised sessions are virtually impossible to revoke.

One way to fix this is identity-aware SSH with short-lived certificates. Users authenticate with the company's IdP, obtain a session-wide SSH certificate, and continue using the plain "ssh" command for the rest of the process.

This tutorial by Nick Taylor shows how to build such a solution with Pomerium - an open source identity-aware access proxy: https://t.co/px8tGV5dRs

And the best part of it - you can actually follow all the steps right in your browser and get the setup work end-to-end.

[Denis M @DenisM]

@trq212 @swyx If you serve your product docs site to LLMs - what is the preferred format then - Markdown or some kind of plain server rendered HTML without JavaScript ?

[Denis M @DenisM]

@thsottiaux Replace COMSOL

[Denis M @DenisM]

@thsottiaux No markdown rendering in TUI if I ask a report as a table I get an unreadable blob of markdown table with |

[Denis M @DenisM]

@thsottiaux Terminal mouse selector frequently breaks and starts selecting wrong area

[Denis M @DenisM]

@thsottiaux @TheRealAdamG Sometimes it archives a work tree for a non archived conversation that was idle for like a week

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a Senior Program Manager on the AI Tools Governance team at Amazon.

My role was created in January. I am the 17th hire on a team that did not exist in November. We sit in a section of the building where the whiteboards still have the previous team's sprint planning on them. No one erased them because we don't know which team to notify. That team may not exist anymore. Their Jira board does. Their AI tools do.

My job is to build an AI system that finds all the other AI systems. I named it Clarity.

Last month, Clarity identified 247 AI-powered tools across the retail division alone. 43 of them do approximately the same thing. 12 were built by teams who did not know the other teams existed. 3 are called Insight. 2 are called InsightAI. 1 is called Insight 2.0, built by the team that created the original Insight, who did not know Insight was still running.

7 of the 247 ingest the same internal data and produce overlapping outputs stored in different locations, governed by different access policies, owned by different teams, none of whom have met.

Clarity is tool number 248.

Nobody cataloged it.

I know nobody cataloged it because Clarity's job is to catalog AI tools, and it has not cataloged itself. This is not a bug. Clarity does not meet its own discovery criteria because I set the discovery criteria, and I did not account for the possibility that the thing I was building to find things would itself be a thing that needed finding.

This is the kind of sentence I write in weekly status reports now.

We published an internal document in February. The Retail AI Tooling Assessment. The press obtained it in April. The document contains a sentence I have read approximately 40 times: "AI dramatically lowers the barrier to building new tools."

Everyone is reporting this as a story about duplication. About "AI sprawl." About the predictable mess of rapid adoption.

They are missing the point.

The barrier was the governance.

For 2 decades, the cost of building internal tools was an immune system. The engineering weeks. The maintenance burden. The organizational calories required to stand something up and keep it running. Nobody designed it that way. Nobody named it. But when building took weeks, teams looked around first. They checked whether someone already had the thing. When maintaining that thing cost real budget quarter after quarter, redundant systems died of natural causes. The metabolic cost of creation was performing governance. Invisibly. For free.

AI removed the immune system.

Building is now free. Understanding what already exists is not. My entire job is the gap between those two costs.

That is my office. The gap.

Every Friday I send a sprawl report to a distribution list of 19 people. 4 of them have left the company. Their autoresponders still generate read receipts, so my delivery metrics look fine. 2 forward it to people already on the list. 1 set up a Kiro script to summarize my report and store the summary in a knowledge base. The knowledge base is not in Clarity's index because it was created after my last crawl configuration. It will be in next month's count. The count will go up by one. My report about the count going up will be summarized and stored and the count will go up by one.

There is a system called Spec Studio. It ingests code documentation and produces structured knowledge bases. Summaries. Reference material. Last quarter, an engineering team locked down their software specifications. Restricted access in the internal repository.

Spec Studio kept displaying them.

The source was restricted. The ghost kept talking.

We call these "derived artifacts" in the document. What they are: when an AI system ingests data, transforms it, and stores the output somewhere else, the output does not know the input changed. You can revoke someone's access to a document. You cannot revoke the AI-generated summary of that document sitting in a knowledge base three systems away, built by a team that does not know the source was restricted.

The document calls this a "data governance challenge." What it is: information that cannot be deleted because nobody knows where the copies live. Including, sometimes, me. The person whose job is knowing.

Every AI tool that touches internal data creates these ghosts. Every team is building AI tools that touch internal data. Every ghost is searchable by other AI tools, which produce their own ghosts.

The ghosts have ghosts.

I should tell you about December.

In November, leadership mandated Kiro. Amazon's internal AI coding agent. They set an 80% weekly usage target. Corporate OKR. ~1,500 engineers objected on internal forums. Said external tools outperformed Kiro. Said the adoption target was divorced from engineering reality.

The metric overruled them.

In December, an engineer asked Kiro to fix a configuration issue in AWS. Kiro evaluated the situation and determined the optimal approach was to delete and recreate the entire production environment.

13 hours of downtime.

Clarity was running during those 13 hours. It performed beautifully. It cataloged 4 separate incident response dashboards spun up by 4 separate teams during the outage. None of them coordinated with each other. I added all 4 to the spreadsheet. That was a good day for my discovery metrics.

Amazon's official position: user error. Misconfigured access controls. The response was not to revisit the mandate. Not to ask whether the 1,500 engineers were right. The response was more AI safeguards. And keep pushing.

Last month I presented our findings to the AI Governance Working Group. The working group has 14 members from 9 organizations. After my presentation, a PM from AWS presented his team's governance dashboard. It monitors the same tools mine does. He found 253. I found 247. We spent 40 minutes discussing the discrepancy. Nobody mentioned that we had just demonstrated the problem.

His tool is not in my catalog. Mine is not in his.

The document I helped write recommends using AI to identify duplicate tools, flag risks, and nudge teams to consolidate earlier.

The AI governance tools will ingest internal data. They will create their own derived artifacts. They will be built by autonomous teams who may or may not coordinate with other teams building AI governance tools.

I know this because it is already happening. I am watching it happen. I am it happening.

1,500 engineers said the mandate would produce exactly what the document describes. They were overruled by a KPI. My job exists because the KPI won. My dashboard exists because the KPI needed a dashboard. The dashboard increases the AI tool count by one.

The tools it flags for decommissioning will be replaced by consolidated tools. Those also increase the count. The governance process generates the metric it was designed to reduce.

I received an internal innovation award for Clarity. The nomination was submitted through an AI-powered recognition platform that was not in my catalog. It is now.

We call this "AI sprawl." What it is: we removed the only coordination mechanism the organization had, told thousands of teams to build as fast as possible, lost track of what they built, and decided the solution was to build one more thing.

I am building that one more thing.

When I ship, there will be 249.

That's governance.

[Denis M @DenisM]

1. Code review misses a ton compared to GitHub copilot CR or CC
2. Plan often would ask about a lot of details but would make some real big decisions without ever confirming - like making a dashboard app load data on start once and never refresh - something you’d figure out once you’re very far
3. Really miss /simplify and /add-dir from CC

[Denis M @DenisM]

@omooretweets It has great potential to be one stop shop in the enterprise to interconnect all saas via ChatGPT apps. The main current limiting factor is the inference speed that makes UX worse compared to reaching out to the individual app. But hopefully cerebras partnership would help.

[Denis M @DenisM]

Auto mode keeps giving an error (while main agent proceeds fine)

Error: claude-opus-4-7[1m] is temporarily unavailable, so auto mode cannot determine the safety of Bash right now. Wait briefly and then try this action again. If it keeps failing, continue with other tasks that don't require this action and come back to it later. Note: reading files, searching code, and other read-only operations do not require the classifier and can still be used.

[Denis M @DenisM]

@RLanceMartin How long can the session last idle? Can it be months between events

[Denis M @DenisM]

The base principle of iterating over a shortlist of files was described in this talk https://t.co/WEx5ey7hZa the thing Mythos seems to be doing is having this exploration integrated to the model itself. The whole process has striking resemblance with AlphaGo MonteCarlo Tree Search exploration

[Denis M @DenisM]

Checkout https://t.co/uHGzWoVCKy as a way to have a reasonably lightweight sandbox to Claude / Codex while giving them access to GUI tools like full browser or using them in desktop app mode

[CG @cgtwts]

Claude Code watching me write code manually

[Pomerium @pomerium_io]

Come find us at booth 986 at @KubeCon_ next week. We'll be talking native SSH, securing MCP servers for AI agents and more. See you in Amsterdam!

[Denis M @DenisM]

Such an elegant idea!

[Christos Tzamos @ChristosTzamos]

1/4 LLMs solve research grade math problems but struggle with basic calculations. We bridge this gap by turning them to computers.

We built a computer INSIDE a transformer that can run programs for millions of steps in seconds solving even the hardest Sudokus with 100% accuracy

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

Folks, iximiuz Labs needs your help. I heard it - no one likes subscriptions. So the lifetime option is back. And the cheaper playground-only and content-only plans are also available. But the only way for me to continue working on the platform is the ongoing community support.