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[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

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Подождем и пойдем #RIP #diezel

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@YLatynina Ебаная нелюдь

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Software Engineers are not paid for writing code.

They’re paid for solving problems.

The faster you accept this, the better your life and career will be.

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

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@iannuttall What about self hosted gitlab? Is there any plans?

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@pavlentij Тут все залежить від контексту та моєї мети. Якщо я хочу вирішити питання і не образити нікого, то так. Якщо я хочу вказати йому на недоліки в роботі - ні. Але якщо людина так відповіла, то мабуть для цього були якісь не відомі мені мотиви. Тому точно відповім

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@Egor_Avetisov "Господи, дай мне сил не комментировать и не встревать в срачи" не дал

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@mrchex постоянно там заправляюсь, ничего страшного не заметил;)

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Люди гинуть, а йому «цікаво»… Довбойоб.

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@maksim_ka2 We've already done it with https://t.co/yENZhVC9xs

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https://t.co/VYsQ1lpP9L

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@Mayasdays Have a fun!

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@geophysicist @ixahmedxii https://t.co/OCEhHl4MAl

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@pavlentij @DI_Ukraine buddy то любов! Був 2 дні у Дніпрі і 3 рази заходив до них;)

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@pavlentij В Яремчі та Івано-Франківську вже давно працюють. Навчили мене дивитися на спідометр

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Сгенерировал

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«Беремо і гробимо» @privatbank