Jonathan Hoyt

Husband, father, principal engineer at GitHub. 30 years in tech. Writing about AI agents, safety systems, and teams that solve real problems.

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

I shipped TSRS 2.3.0 with a playback boost for the quieter generated voices, plus reliability fixes that have made it easier for me to leave the app running while agents work.

https://t.co/Nq7CKFw7Wa

[sagitz @sagitz_]

$100,000 in bounty 🤯

Thanks @GitHubSecurity

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

Trusted does not mean unlimited.

Trusted for what? Based on which evidence? Up to how much exposure?

I wrote about letting access grow with evidence for expensive product capabilities, while measuring the legitimate users we slow down.

https://t.co/kA21MGl89S

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

I wanted a few demo videos and ended up building Dailies, an open source studio my agents direct from Markdown.

For its first test, I had Dailies make a film about itself, then use that film as footage inside another Dailies production.

https://t.co/8eg8AphTZ6

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

Tri-State Relay Service strikes again ⚡️

The app started as a way to stop agents from interrupting me. Live mode made it useful to listen while work moved, but then every line sounded the same.

So I added per-line voices and a BYO voice command 🪄

https://t.co/waJtk3vNXT

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

I just published Tri-State Relay Service 1.1.2.

It's a local macOS app + CLI that lets coding agents leave short audio updates without taking over your focus. If you run more than one agent and lose track of what changed, Tri-State Relay Service might be for you.

https://t.co/aXnT8dBASb

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

Agent-assisted work can look finished before the thinking is finished.

I wrote about why that changes mentoring, review, and what we should expect people to explain when agents help produce the work.

https://t.co/EDuMhmM09P

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

I tried Karpathy's LLM wiki idea and realized it didn't fit my whole Brain.

But it did show up inside Projects, which have started becoming mini wikis for long-running work.

https://t.co/XoC8mrWhq0

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

@urlscanio any status updates on the current outage?

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

Come work with me! https://t.co/Rbjl8zXH4q

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

@muanchiou I can’t figure out how to dm you but if you want to talk let me know. Thinking of you after seeing your tweets.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot Infiltrated the Pentagon

This is the most important RETWEET I’ve ever asked for. I hope you’ll read this breaking-news-filled 250-pg. book—viewable w/ a $5 PROOF subscription—and follow this 🧵. https://t.co/S5VQyXyaGG

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

This summer we’re living in our back yard while we remodel the house. The outdoor kitchen is seeing a lot of use so I created an instagram account to show off our creations. If you’re into pretty pictures of cooking and food check out https://t.co/aNdC7nERam

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

I’m hiring for my team and our sister teams, if you’re an engineer or manager interested in a new role or know someone who is please share! https://t.co/r423jE4QwC

[Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived) @RepBarbaraLee]

RT if you think members of Congress shouldn’t be able to sell and trade stocks.

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

@cloudapp As I mentioned earlier I had reached out to support and was told nothing could be done. Having said that it does appear some links are now fixed, but not all. If I audit all of my blog posts to find broken images should I send those to your support to get fixed?

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

Been a happy @cloudapp user for years and recommend it frequently but discovered today that all of the https://t.co/C7DtdMEy7v direct links to images I’ve used in posts over the years are now dead and I have to manually search for and update them 😓 Won’t be recommending anymore.

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

@cloudapp Yup, first thing I did.

[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

@PreetBharara https://t.co/DzjQ9P1mhH

[Stanford Internet Observatory @stanfordio]

(2) .@joinClubhouse user IDs (not their username — more like a unique serial number) are transmitted in plaintext over the internet, making them trivial to intercept. Chatroom IDs (again, more like serial number) also transmitted in plaintext.

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[Jonathan Hoyt @jonmagic]

@sfitzie1014 @PreetBharara YouTube is probably the best place but I tried to put this one together on Spotify as well https://t.co/r4YbQaRP5e