Emily McRose

security engineer by day, prev. @atlassian @topcoder @telescope_ai, sci-fi author & tech creator at night

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

What I expect from AI as a personal assistant:

a comfortable start → active listening → more reflection → a logical sequence of questions → a perfect summary

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

It doesn’t have to be a complete SIEM solution. Even simple alerts are much better than having no visibility at all

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

I enjoy taking notes & rating tourist spots, hotels, & people I meet from 1-10 when I travel. If someone were to make an app like beli but for travel destinations, that would be really helpful

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

@YourPrimePath 💯

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

There’s something beautiful about simplicity

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

There’s something therapeutic about writing in a book

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

wow sick new billboards from openai

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

A short reflection on this week

https://t.co/5rsu3i62jE

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

Twitter on mobile got an update & I thought they had removed the poll feature. Turns out you just have to swipe the icons to the left to reveal more options. It’s a bit awkward since only 3 icons are visible by default

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

Yeah

[shrey birmiwal @shreybirmiwal]

Hot take the infra stuff around ai is way cooler than model training

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

Sementara negara lain berlomba2 menghargai meritokrasi & talenta, kita justru menyia-nyiakan itu. Tak heran banyak talenta muda yang memilih berkembang di lingkungan yang lebih menghargai kemampuan > koneksi. Jika saja mereka diberi kesempatan, Indo bisa naik ke level selanjutnya

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

Indonesia terlalu sering menghambat kemajuan negara sendiri karena budaya ordal. “Siapa yang dikenal” lebih penting daripada “Apa yang bisa dilakukan”. Banyak anak2 muda cerdas & pekerja keras tidak mendapat kesempatan di bidang teknologi, akademik, seni, olahraga, birokrasi, dll

[Tim Wijaya @itsTimWijaya]

Gua baru visit diaspora Indonesia di New York & San Francisco.

Ini alasan mereka gak pulang:

Di Indonesia, power and wealth are determined by who your family is and who you know, bukan dari ability atau prestasi.

Indo is a place where you can be in government or run a VC fund -- just by being golf buddies with the right people.

Jadi gak heran, smart people refuse to work for bosses who don't deserve to be there.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a "legacy" technology, which means AI agents can natively and easily use them, combine them, interact with them via the entire terminal toolkit.

E.g ask your Claude/Codex agent to install this new Polymarket CLI and ask for any arbitrary dashboards or interfaces or logic. The agents will build it for you. Install the Github CLI too and you can ask them to navigate the repo, see issues, PRs, discussions, even the code itself.

Example: Claude built this terminal dashboard in ~3 minutes, of the highest volume polymarkets and the 24hr change. Or you can make it a web app or whatever you want. Even more powerful when you use it as a module of bigger pipelines.

If you have any kind of product or service think: can agents access and use them?

- are your legacy docs (for humans) at least exportable in markdown?
- have you written Skills for your product?
- can your product/service be usable via CLI? Or MCP?
- ...

It's 2026. Build. For. Agents.

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

Believe me, once you understand what is truly crucial in life, you will stop seeking external validation.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

From this goal of Grok, all things flow:

Rigorous truth-seeking

Appreciation of beauty

Fostering humanity

Discovering all physics

Inventing all useful technologies

Consciousness to the stars

Love

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

@maximzhestkov @fun_and_awe 💯

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

@UiSavior 🤣🤣🤣

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

nearly all of the best engineers i know are switching from claude to codex

[Obsidian @obsdmd]

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.

Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

0–10: 2X Comic Book Author (Wrote stories about school life was once sent to the principal's office for a "confession letter" where I compared a teacher to Mrs. Worms from Spongebob squarepants)

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

It was a long journey
18–23: Security Engineer, Security Researcher, Product Security, Product Designer, Serial Maker
15–17: Hacker, Software Engineer, Frontend Engineer. (Successfully hacked my brother’s iPhone SE at 16 to win a cash bet he made against me)

[Emily McRose @emilymcrosen]

11–14: Musician / Actor (Attended Yamaha Music School for classical piano & violin courses, joined Talent Agency. Skipped school for 3 months to film a cameo role in a local TV series only to be teased by friends for the brief screen time)