Ilya Lichtenstein

Former hacker, now builder. Razzlekhan's husband.

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@ivanburazin How about local sandboxes?

[John Friedman @johngfriedman]

Btw, the Manhattan Project people partied.

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@kenwuuuu Keep working on it, get some traction, come back again

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

Who at Meta thought it was a good idea to give an AI bot the power to reset passwords?

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

Brave lived long enough to become the villain

[wukko @uwukko]

A fresh Brave install in 2026: sponsored ad wallpapers on new tab page by default (opt out). Brave VPN, News, Talk, Leo (AI), Rewards and other revenue-milking bloat is advertised/pinned by default. Analytics and "phoning home" by default. Google as default search engine in most regions by default. Sponsored search engines like Russian Yandex in CIS countries by default: https://t.co/nCK7ZErytG

Brave has an ad branch that handles advertising within the browser: https://t.co/EwJwKKgWxq. Brave does on-device ad targeting based on cohorts and interests, just like what Chrome used to do and what Google was largely hated for (remember FLoC?). This applies to additional (opt-in) rewarded ads, shipped as part of Brave.

Brave has injected referral IDs to crypto-related URLs entered into the omnibox in the past, intentionally, by design:
https://t.co/hovGMDz8Et
https://t.co/3wdWDEV85H
https://t.co/fo1mD75vAF

Brave also uses dark patterns to drive users away from turning off ads in their browser. For example, an article linked from the "opt out" button in the browser has a wall of text making excuses for ads before the actual steps needed to be taken to disable them: https://t.co/dka1EIMtbw

kind of hypocritical for brave to judge firefox for lesser bullshit, don't you think?

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@samuel_spitz By the time it's hot and worth $1B no employee is getting meaningful equity

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@bridge_surf This is why we need deterministic guardrails for agents

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

AGI is here, everyone

[Parker Ortolani @ParkerOrtolani]

Am I crazy or is Gemini 3.5 better than any other model at knowing what time it is without having to tell it? It’s so much more time contextual.

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@Bencera The first all AI fundraising, right? Congrats on the raise!

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@wadefoster As always in software, use the right tool for the job. This could change

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

At some point you have to wonder if this is intentional

[Nelson Lee Miller @NelsonLeeMiller]

I am completely devastated. On May 6th, @GoogleCloud charged my card $7,069.02 for an absolute security failure on their end. Their support team has done nothing but harass and gaslight me ever since. (Case ID: 71048746) A thread on how a hobbyist got ruined by AI overnight: (1/)

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@OfficialLoganK OK but why would anyone use this model if better SOTA models exist today?

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@vikaskansalHQ What about Workspace Business Standard accounts?

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

RIP OpenClaw

[Google @Google]

Introducing Gemini Spark ✨

It’s your 24/7 personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf, and under your direction.

🧠 It runs on Gemini 3.5 and is built on @Antigravity, so it can perform long-running tasks easily in the background.

⏱️ And because it runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud, you don’t even need to keep your laptop open.

🧰 Spark will integrate seamlessly with Google tools, and soon with third parties through MCP.

#GoogleIO

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

It's always 12-18 months away

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Microsoft AI chief predicts AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months.

[Gabriel @gabriel_horwitz]

did you know cloudflare encrypts the internet using a wall of lava lamps?

100 of them sit in their SF lobby. a camera films the chaos, the images get hashed, and the result seeds the cryptographic keys for ~20% of global web traffic.

the london office uses a wall of double pendulums.

the austin office uses hanging rainbow mobiles.

the singapore office uses a chunk of uranium in a glass jar.

just in case the lava lamps stop being weird enough.

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

Define "breached"

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Security researchers claim to have breached macOS using Claude Mythos.

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@dabit3 Compiled languages are the biggest unlock for agents

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@anitakirkovska Claude Code as a harness is better. Unfortunately the Opus model just keeps getting worse.

[Ilya Lichtenstein @cipherstein]

@bradgessler REST is kind of a bad idea though. Why do we have POST PUT and PATCH and everyone uses them differently