Naga Nithin

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@markoilico Link

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@albysjourney this feature was supposed to stop AI slop… now humans are becoming slop 🥲. My TL fully filled with this type tweets

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@heynavtoor Bruh 💀

https://t.co/xzretuj4Kv

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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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@CiprianiRanieri https://t.co/iuu24Bslse

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@arnesh_11 https://t.co/W0sGAf3ERI - Claude Opus 4.6 (One shotted entire website, Used few more prompts for security, seo, deployment)

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@PLBompard https://t.co/d9QrfV7cV8 - Repo to Visual Diagram

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@Priya_Upadhyay_ https://t.co/W0sGAf3ERI

An Gmail-inbox inspired Job board for freshers in India IT where it will pull fresh jobs directly from thousands of career pages, ATS before those get listed into Linkedin/Naukri which increases chances of getting the job with lower competition.

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@Priya_Upadhyay_ https://t.co/iuu24Bslse

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@dr_cintas Great tool, I too working on similar one: https://t.co/9muFPgwMTu

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@vineerpasam https://t.co/W0sGAf3ERI - Job board for Freshers like Gmail Inbox look

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@pascowebdesigns @Lovable NPM

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@zaidmukaddam https://t.co/PlqGWFdUzV, https://t.co/QTMZxOhgGe

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Thank you @mannupaaji for reviewing my project (https://t.co/tbs2AV6Fok) and sharing insights & suggestions.

Updated the hero title, now next up: designing more portfolio themes. 🏃

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@mannupaaji Resume to Portfolio in Seconds:

https://t.co/PlqGWFespt

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@Shruti_0810 AI

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@NoahEpstein_ MCP

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@eyad_khrais PROMPT

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@Mho_23 mentor

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@ionleu 👋

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@iamvasu097 @lovable Hey Hi 👋