Sunil Manandhar

Research Scientist, IBM Research

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.

Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.

We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.

[nisedo @nisedo_]

A must read

https://t.co/d4tiRoEvpI

[Sujan Khadgi @___sujan]

Introducing Retune

Vibe coding is fun but it's so annoying to prompt Claude Code for specific UI changes. I just want the tools I'm familiar with as a designer to tune the UI just how I want it.

Retune lets you do just that. Select any element in your running app, tweak it visually, and your AI coding tool writes the change to source. Like DevTools, but the changes stick.

@benjitaylor's Agentation and @joshpuckett DialKit were huge inspirations for tools that greatly improved different parts of my workflow as a designer leveraging AI tools to prototype.

Hopefully, Retune is useful to some who would much rather tweak the UI themselves than prompt the change.

Check it out here: https://t.co/WySZyJ0DfY

Github: https://t.co/xfv5cLLV2F

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@Kurdiumov @Grady_Booch Same

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I was inspired by this so I wanted to see if Claude Code can get into my Lutron home automation system.

- it found my Lutron controllers on the local wifi network
- checked for open ports, connected, got some metadata and identified the devices and their firmware
- searched the internet, found the pdf for my system
- instructed me on what button to press to pair and get the certificates
- it connected to the system and found all the home devices (lights, shades, HVAC temperature control, motion sensors etc.)
- it turned on and off my kitchen lights to check that things are working (lol!)

I am now vibe coding the home automation master command center, the potential is 🔥.And I'm throwing away the crappy, janky, slow Lutron iOS app I've been using so far. Insanely fun :D :D

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

Welcome to the team and very much looking forward to the collaboration!

[Jiacen Xu @JiacenXu]

Thanks for the intro, Prof. Li! Thrilled to join @IBMResearch this summer, advised by Kapil and @SunilManandhar_. Excited for the upcoming summer and doing some solid work. If you're nearby and interested in LLM-related security problems, let's grab a coffee and chat! 🌟

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@__jeremyers Congrats, Dr. Myers!

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@__jeremyers Another form of weird :D

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@__jeremyers https://t.co/L4z2Sr1fu5

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@__jeremyers Well maybe it sounds a little weird but they all do.

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@__jeremyers Badhai chha, dai.

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@__jeremyers Sanyakhuna is not weird.

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

[Adwait Nadkarni @adwait_nadkarni]

We often focus on reducing false positives in vulnerability detection, but is that what developers really want? @Amit_Seal_Ami's @IEEESSP'24 paper shows the contrary: developers would tolerate FPs provided the tool catches something of value. FNs scare them the most. (1/3)

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@TheManishaPant Thank you, dd! :)

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@gurunath_kadam @adwait_nadkarni Thanks, man!

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

A thank you tweet! I feel very fortunate that I got a chance to have @adwait_nadkarni as my advisor. Definitely apply if you are looking for a Ph.D. position!

[Adwait Nadkarni @adwait_nadkarni]

@SunilManandhar_ @acm_ccs @STEM_at_WM @KaushalKafle Finally, this marks @SunilManandhar_'s last talk/project completed @ W&M. Proud advisor moment!

Note: If you are a grad student looking for Ph.D. positions, or on the faculty market looking for a growing and vibrant security group, DM me. We are always hiring in security. (6/6)

[Frederico Araujo @fred_s_araujo]

Had a lot of fun with @EyshaShirrine and @SunilManandhar_ at @acm_ccs! :)

[Sunil Manandhar @SunilManandhar_]

@EyshaShirrine @fred_r_araujo