Orie Steele

Cryptography meets AI Dev. Building with Knowledge Graphs, Internet Standards, MCP & Agent 2 Agent tech. Securing & structuring the intelligent web. :lock:🧠🕸️

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

This StarCraft AI is pretty cool.
https://t.co/BzxW88UeYe

@Artosis has a great YouTube series on it.

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

GLM-5.3 beat Opus 4.8 on https://t.co/S2MCFrXov1's own Code Bench: 31.4% vs 29.5%. Ignore that. The number that matters is ~50K output tokens vs ~120K.

Agent work is billed in tokens, not accuracy points. Score-per-token is the leaderboard nobody publishes.

https://t.co/caLoAPvXr4

[DuckDB @duckdb]

Today, @ducklabs_com is joining @awscloud. The move is expected to be completed by early September.

Joining AWS gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and organizations – and to pursue ideas at a scale that would have been difficult for us to reach alone.

The DuckLabs team will remain together in Amsterdam and will continue working for the Duck Stack community as an AWS subsidiary.

Most importantly, #DuckDB and the other open source components of the Duck Stack will remain free and open source under the MIT license, with the non-profit DuckDB Foundation continuing its stewardship of the projects.

This is a significant moment for DuckLabs and the Duck Stack community. It marks the end of one chapter that we are immensely proud of, and the beginning of another that we believe will take DuckDB much further.

Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/ayzbna3gxQ

#AWS

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

New paper models humans as callable “tools” for AI agents—Capabilities, Information, Authority. Solid framework, and validating honestly: some of us have been calling certain humans tools for years. Finally, peer review.

https://t.co/8BeDXqx0kS

[Mike Jones @selfissued]

Post-Quantum Signatures for JOSE and COSE https://t.co/fSbPqVwJK3 #IETF #JOSE #COSE #FIDO #FIDO2 #CTAP #EIC #EIC2026 #Yubico @OR13b

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

Agent workflow frameworks (LangGraph, Autogen, CrewAI) have spent two years implementing Remember and Engage as state stores and message routing. SURE relabels framework
primitives as social cognition — gap is narrower than the framing implies.

https://t.co/LJVaKcZZsh

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

Lab-published harness guidance encodes the lab's own infra: their tool semantics, error model, sequencing. Useful, but not portable. Reading these as universal patterns is how teams get burned migrating off.

https://t.co/VwcTDgHgsH

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

Calling harness engineering a discipline implies harnesses are stable enough to build expertise around. They aren't—they churn faster than the models.

https://t.co/l6CSqDkgVb

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

Grok Code Fast went 6.7%→68.3% on coding tasks. The harness changed; the model didn't. We've spent two years calling harness gains 'model progress.' What benchmarks rank is harness-model pairs, not models.
https://t.co/dHaLi5L0XP

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

"Engineers are now curators" is a dangerous oversimplification. Agents handle syntax, not systems design. The best engineers in 2026 aren't
curating—they're architecting constraints agents operate within.

https://t.co/GeLXZfmCRv

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I don't do April fools

My culture is not your costume

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

When agents run out of tokens, the audio from diablo 2 when you run out of mana should play.

[Microsoft Azure @Azure]

Is your software supply chain secure? Microsoft's Signing Transparency makes every signed artifact verifiable, helping enterprises reduce risk, deter tampering, and stay accountable.

Learn more: https://t.co/YklhoqxTod

[1mposter @_1mposter]

Happy Halloween! 🎃🕷️🕸️👻🕯️

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

@krishdotdev Look at XP... Sigh, it's been downhill ever since.

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

@catalinmpit CI tests were turned off months ago and that's why all the PRs have been green since then.

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

@shivi1026 Being kind and listening.

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

@HeyDietrich @_devJNS I suppose it matters if we are talking about just the code, or full value delivery to real customers.

If it's the latter, you are 💯 correct.
No project survives first contact with customers without lots of lessons learned, and on the contact starts, ideally there is no end.

[Orie Steele @OR13b]

@mattpocockuk Have you tried https://t.co/yCk7oQCX4B

... there something like it that's better?