xeno

context engineer

[xeno @shorttimelines]

With AGI looming, it’s hard to know what to do with one’s time. I feel like I should be preparing but I am at loss for what that preparation looks like

[xeno @shorttimelines]

You've got to be kidding me

[GitHub @github]

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

[xeno @shorttimelines]

@Railway I feel for you guys but one has to wonder how this scale of outage can even happen in 2026

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@aidenybai Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

[xeno @shorttimelines]

I expect we’ll see more of this kind of thing. Protect yourself:

bunfig.toml: minimumReleaseAge = 604800
.npmrc: min-release-age=7
pyproject.toml: exclude-newer = "7 days"

If you didn’t after the axios supply chain attack, do it now

[nader dabit @dabit3]

This is crazy. The hacker installed a dead-man's switch that will wipe your computer if you revoke the GitHub token they stole from you. Revoking the token is what triggers the wipe.

[xeno @shorttimelines]

@joshpuckett Feature request: when categorising fonts using the organise feature I sometimes mistakenly put a font in the wrong category. Would love to be able to undo

[xeno @shorttimelines]

Anthropic needs to release Mythos before everyone migrates to Codex. Opus 4.7 cannot compete with GPT 5.5

[xeno @shorttimelines]

@mckaywrigley @DanielleFong Have you found a good alternative to Cursor’s tab autocomplete? It’s the one thing I can’t let go of when doing occasional manual editor work. I don’t use it for anything else

[xeno @shorttimelines]

@joshpuckett @emilkowalski Two of the greats

[xeno @shorttimelines]

I think I’ve figured out what makes 4.7 feel qualitatively different (worse) than 4.6. It doesn’t have good intuition; it doesn’t reliably infer intent beyond what is explicitly stated, and often stops short of connecting implicit dots in a sequence, which means you have to be very specific and verbose to get a similar result. This makes it feel lazier than 4.6

[xeno @shorttimelines]

@trq212 Happens to me too. Infrequently, but not an anomaly

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@trq212 It’s a welcome improvement but I occasionally run into issues after running /clear that blank the canvas above the input and require that I restart the session

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@jjacky @aquavoice So everyone’s happy essentially installing keyloggers on their devices?

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@pbakaus @impeccable_ai imp- or imp:

[xeno @shorttimelines]

Keep working. Keep building. Keep learning the new tools before they replace us. Each of us, individually, is making a game-theoretically sound decision. The cost of falling behind is too great, the window of our diminishing economic relevance too narrow, the wrong side of the coming divide too permanent to risk. And so we keep going toward something none of us really know how to prepare for, something none of us particularly want, all the while yearning for the simplicity of the past

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@AvidCommentator There’s also no way all 53 ships arrive if the situation in Iran deteriorates. These are expected shipments, not guaranteed shipments

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@robertlasagna1 T-minus 2 hours 36 minutes

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@artistdanz @Scutty This surely can’t have helped things

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@AvidCommentator Inspired me to go to Bunnings