StackWild 🐟

i used to code

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

@rickasaurus By ai experience you mean using ai agents or working with llms in a computer sciency way?

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

@effectfully @ThePrimeagen You can just admit you were wrong. Lots of us were.

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

Be honest, how many of you pursued stupid app ideas because an LLM told you it was a great idea?

[NSA Cyber @NSACyber]

Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

Be honest, how many of you pursued stupid app ideas because an LLM told you it was a great idea?

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

Software engineers don't even read the AI generated code anymore. They just look at you like this.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I hate this. I hate that people, even when slopping, don't even think about how it works. This has to end poorly and I don't see how an increase in "intelligence" is going to save you from the results of blind feature lust

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

fixed it

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

this is ugly

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Fork your dependencies, trim them to only your use case, never update unless it breaks for your users. I’ve been vocal about this for 10+ years. I’ve always said that updating is way riskier than latent bugs (which can be tracked and CVEs monitored).

If you are updating a dependency, it’s on you to analyze every single commit in the full transitive set of dependencies. If you dont see anything compelling, dont update!

I remember at HashiCorp once in awhile an engineer would try to update a dep or replace a DIY lib with an external one and id always ask “show me the commit we need.” Dont update for the sake of it.

Feeling pretty swell about this mentality with all the supply chain attacks happening.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 BREAKING: A new npm supply-chain attack uses a dead-man's switch. The payload plants a watcher on your machine that nukes your home directory the second you revoke the GitHub token it stole from you.

The compromise happened today, across 42 official tanstack npm packages, 84 malicious versions in total. tanstack/react-router alone pulls more than 12 million weekly downloads.

The attacker forked TanStack's repository and pushed a single hidden commit. From there, they tricked TanStack's own release system into signing the malicious packages as if they were the real thing. To npm, and to anyone checking the cryptographic proof of origin (SLSA provenance), the poisoned versions looked 100% legitimate.

Maintainer Tanner Linsley confirmed the whole team had 2FA enabled. It didn't matter. This is the first documented npm worm in history that ships with a valid, signed certificate of authenticity, the same one defenders rely on to know a package wasn't tampered with.

[StackWild 🐟 @stack_wild]

@ThePrimeagen ITS 👏A 👏NEXT 👏TOKEN 👏PREDICTOR

[Ben Dicken @BenjDicken]

oops did it again

[Marcin Krzyzanowski @krzyzanowskim]

There are 4 types of people saying "AI will replace Software Engineering" in 6 months

1. they own a company that benefits from replacing engineers (ceo, stockholders etc). they need to justify the amount invested into them

2. Company that made big cuts and they want to attribute it to whatever and AI is good excuse

3. People who never worked as as/with Software Engineering and have no clue the work is not just typing

4. Burned out engineers who don't want to do that job anymore

[PandaRE 🐼 🇺🇦 @PandaRE__]

AI is NOT replacing cybersecurity jobs. Full stop.

I'm so tired of people parroting "AI will replace reverse engineers" and "malware analysis is solved". No. It is not.

I have analyzed hundreds of malware samples using AI. Here's what actually happens:

-> It gives you made-up decryption keys with full confidence
-> It tries to decrypt data that is literally random garbage
-> It misidentifies malware families
-> It misses critical functions

And have you ever tried retrohunting with the YARA rules AI writes across thousands of samples? Go ahead. Watch the false positives roll in. That alone should tell you everything you need to know.

Every single output needs human validation and rigorous review.

AI is a tool, a powerful one. But someone still has to build the MCPs, validate the output, understand the context, catch the hallucinations, and make the actual calls during incident response.

The people saying this stuff loudest have clearly never watched AI confidently hand them completely wrong decrypted data and make them believe it's real.

Stop scaring newcomers out of the field and misleading people with this nonsense. Cybersecurity still needs humans.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

I can't believe someone would just steal from Anthropic like this. The millions of man-hours Anthropic spent hand-writing code, text, art, books, etc. to generate enough data for training must be taken into consideration here. Where is the respect for IP?

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Nobody wants "recommendations" in the search results.

We want search results relevant to the search terms we enter.

YouTube search has been beyond broken for years now. I use DuckDuckGo to search YouTube, that's how bad it is lol

[Harjot Rana @harjjotsinghh]

I'll be honest.

tRPC changed how I think about APIs more than any
course, book, or YouTube tutorial ever did.

The moment you stop writing fetch('/api/user') and
start calling user.get() like it's just... a function?

Your brain rewires. Permanently.

If you're still REST-maxxing on a full-stack TypeScript
project in 2026, I genuinely feel for you.

@trpcio has no business being this clean.

[forloop @forloopcodes]

I hate that Microsoft might be vibecoding Windows, but it's inevitable

microsoft laid off everyone who knows how c++ works so now they just prompt gpt 5 to fix the codebase. 30% of windows is written by ai. that is why your printer drivers were deleted to make room for 4gb of copilot telemetry

they rewrote office in typescript. file explorer and the notification center are now just bloated electron instances that take 3 seconds to render a right click menu

the taskbar and start menu were rebuilt from scratch in react just to shove ads and "recommended" bloatware in your face. it uses more ram than world of warcraft did in 2004

copilot is being forced into notepad and paint. they are forcing you to test it in your basic tools

windows search isn't looking for your files. it's a bing wrapper designed to sell you a microsoft 365 subscription while you're desperately trying to find a local pdf

the widgets section is another bloat that nobody asked for. edge webview was designed to keep your cpu usage high enough that you're forced to switch to linux

over all of that, the task manager barely works in the latest updates

nobody at microsoft knows what "win32" means anymore. they replaced their support forums with an ai that just tells you to "try restarting" if your kernel panics

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

It's mind-blowing that the entire AI revolution is being driven by a single 10-line algorithm.

[Tony Dinh @tdinh_me]

Claude: "You're absolutely right!"