Nick K 🐐

Decade of building products | math & security background | London

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

Wrote up how we won 1st at the @bfl_ml hackathon.

TL;DR: Stop writing scripts. Let agents execute.

Thanks @aiengine_hack @runware 🙏

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

https://t.co/XgXiaDYZhd

[swisscheese @swisscheese4299]

I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety.

The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason.

They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money.

This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

@WorkFlowy Thanks! Is there any way to convert a checkbox/header to a bullet on a mobile without extra clicks? Also do you have any plans in a roadmap to make this behaviour easier on desktop/mobile e.g. introduce such combinations as mentioned above?

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

Hey @WorkFlowy 👋

Is there any easy way to turn a checkbox or a header back to a bullet list?

In some apps adding "- " (with space) after special component resets it to the bullet list. In other apps pressing "Delete" on empty component resets it to a default component.

[Ben Vinegar @bentlegen]

👋 New blog post:

"How coding agents read files – and how to write for them"

In it I explore how code optimized for agent-discovery may lead to major token savings on search + retrieval, even in code generated from frontier models like GPT-5.6 Sol

Plus other findings ⬇️

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

If it's covered in docs, can you point me to them? I tried to google it multiple times, but haven't found any combination to reset any item back to a "bullet" 😓

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

It works similarly on mobile, but converting item back to the bullet even more troublesome as requires clicks outside of keyboard

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.

Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.

This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.

And they can do so in secret.

The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

So it begins… the new cycle of Big Scary AGI 😱😱😱 We have a week or two free of twitter as it will be swarming with “Do you understand what Anthropic just said…”, “🚨Breaking….” etc

[Security Alliance @_SEAL_Org]

🌟 SEAL Frameworks Stewards Spotlight: Meet @n0guest & @hexnickk from @LidoFinance

Stewards are experts who maintain individual SEAL Frameworks, review contributions, and help others implement security best practices. They help keep our frameworks current and useful!

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[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

It's so weird that @Cloudflare doesn't have usage cap, like I would love to use it, but I don't want to get $100k bill if I slightly fuck up anywhere...

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

Good ol' cybersecurity work known as "hey codex, can you download sqlite from my little home server"

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

how do I use codex to ssh to my VPS? this is annoying as hell

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

how do I use codex to ssh to my VPS? this is annoying as hell

[tobi lutke @tobi]

https://t.co/5MJ7u1VHwf

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

cc @OpenAIDevs

[Nick K 🐐 @_heynikko]

I'm just trying to ssh to my home server and select few rows from a db...