Kevin Sidwar

Creator of Deploy the Fleet. Obsessed with ESP32 and Internet of Things. Diehard @capitals fan.

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Probably not the first to use the term but I'm starting to think about AI more in terms of skill maxxing to bring determinism into the non-deterministic process of agentic engineering.
#skillmaxxing

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

This idea of wanting to "one-shot" everything with AI is super detrimental to the industry.

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Claude and I are off to a rough start today:
"You're right to be pissed. I conflated two separate uses of bias and missed the consequence during cleanup."

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

I told grok I was getting tired of AI overusing "load-bearing" and "belt-and-suspenders" all the time. This is the image it generated for me. #ai #slop #vibecoding

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Tomorrow's Production #ESP32 newsletter covers the ESP32 Security Dashboard. If you aren't subscribed, here's the link.

Weekly content on deploying the ESP32 in production.

https://t.co/8Avnbka4dP

#embedded #firmware #iot

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Espressif has announced a security vulnerability on the #esp32 S3 that allows an AES key to be retrieved via fault injection. Details in the post but the TL;DR is, it's unlikely to affect you, no need to panic.

https://t.co/VkskbDPixf

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Kinda feels like Anthropic is overplaying the "too dangerous" card to justify some pretty questionable things:
- collecting all data from your sessions including output
- preventing AI-related development

They do whatever they want by just saying "it's too dangerous if we don't"

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Just got blocked by Claude while trying to repro a CVE on an #esp32.

I had it generate a trivial repro of the CVE which it did without complaint...in C. I told it I wanted it in C++. Blocked!

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

"load-bearing" is the new AI-ism I'm already sick of.

#ai #agenticengineering

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Everyone waiting for the SPCX IPO right now...

"M.A.R.S"

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Trying to come to terms with the fact that while I could keep working when Claude is down, it's probably more productive to just wait for it to come back up.

I hate that I just said those words.

But also, switching to guns (Codex)

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

"I overstated it as if it were. Mea culpa."

Claude admitting that it was gaslighting me. And what's with the "Mea culpa"? I feel like Gilfoyle would have an opinion here.

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

My toxic trait is feeling like it's my duty to correct the AI knowing that it accomplishes nothing.

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

My non-scientific Gimp assessment of the Ducks OT winner. Good goal 👉

#FlyTogether
#LetsGoOilers
#StanleyCup

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Maybe this is why Claude is getting worse by the week 🤔

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

The Head of Claude Code at Anthropic said he hasn’t written code by hand in months.

In 2 days he shipped 49 full features. All written 100% by AI.

He just dropped a 30 min talk on exactly how he does it.

Worth more than any $500 vibe coding course. Bookmark it:

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

@digitalocean Thanks for the unhelpful AI slop answer. I literally couldn't choose ANY option for a droplet so feels like something else but...ok.

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Anyone else unable to create droplets on @digitalocean right now?

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Guess I just had to post about it. It's working again. 🤷‍♂️

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

The ESP32 C5 has a critical vulnerability but it's super hard to exploit. #esp32 #security #firmware

https://t.co/D1qDhnS91F

[Kevin Sidwar @KevinSidwar]

Working on a blog post about the #esp32 security advisory for the C5. This is what grok made for me. Not going to use it but thought it would be fun to share.