Ernie

My vision is to increase the scope and scale of intelligence and build a safer, healthier, happier and more satisfied world!

[Ernie @g41903]

I have no choice but to create an autonomous company.
- 2026.06.06

[shadcn @shadcn]

Must read.

[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.

[Ernie @g41903]

Robot playing tennis? It’s insane!

[Zhikai Zhang @Zhikai273]

🎾Introducing LATENT: Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data

Dynamic movements, agile whole-body coordination, and rapid reactions. A step toward athletic humanoid sports skills.

Project: https://t.co/MFy2NIOsrn
Code: https://t.co/A7B5H8PIBh

[Ernie @g41903]

@JohnnyNel_ True. I’d also like to hear your thoughts on the role of each model.

[Ernie @g41903]

Opus vs Codex: who’s the PM and who’s the engineer? 🧠🧑‍💻

Me to Opus: “Fix the bug or ask Codex.”

Opus: “Codex is great for code. But this bug is prompt engineering. Claude Opus is arguably better.”

That’s when I realized who the PM was.

[Ernie @g41903]

Don’t let life happen to you—you make it happen.

[Ernie @g41903]

Is Gemini broken now, or did I break it? 😅

[Ernie @g41903]

Gitlab, are you serious?

[Ernie @g41903]

Life Lesson #1
If you can’t create and capture the value. There’s no one to blame but yourself.

[Ernie @g41903]

@michelleefang @stripe Congrats! We’ve used Stripe across multiple products and absolutely love it — I’ve got a few ideas on how Stripe could help founders scale even faster. Mind if I DM you?

[Ernie @g41903]

Life is a teacher.
Be humble to listen to the lessons.
Learn from others’ success and failures.
Learn by taking actions.
Learn from sufferings - and choose your own response.
Life is a journey, not destination, so enjoy your trip!

2025.10.07
Ernie in SF

[Ernie @g41903]

@yusan_lin @mirrormirror_ai Registered!

[Ernie @g41903]

Life is a baseball game with no outs.
Keep swinging, keep learning, get better.
Save your energy for the right pitch — then swing hard.
One hit can change everything.

[Ernie @g41903]

AI data centers are turning Mother Earth into Mother Boards.

Glad we’re all on board. Time to get cooked! 😅

#AIRevolution #TechHumor #DataCenters

[Ernie @g41903]

For me:
A) Coding: 80/100
B) Install Claude: 100/100
C) Note-taking: 100/100 (3 months ago)
→ 0/100 (now switched to https://t.co/UX692yzdJQ)

[Ernie @g41903]

1-100: How do you use Cursor? 🖥️
A) Coding
B) Install Claude Code
C) Others (comment below!)
#Cursor #claudecode