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  Uriel Bitton (@uriel_bitton) reported 18 seconds ago

  Day 7 building AppTruth in public A cool use case I accidentally found from my app AppTruth is it makes it so easy to create Github PRs. If you use a npm library on github and it has any type of issue, scan the repo on Apptruth. Apptruth will find the issue and explain exactly: - why it happened - how it happened - where it happened It will then automatically give you the AI prompt to fix it. You can then clone the repo and use the prompt to fix it immediately or submit a PR with the suggested fix.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 3 minutes ago

  PagerDuty, Sentry, Datadog — five dashboards, five bills, and a 3 a.m. page. Built for five-person teams. Solocorns don't have teams. Built Nightlamp to stand the overnight watch — uptime pings, error log scraping, filed GitHub issues with repro steps, bad deploys rolled back,

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  Nothing to see here (@Nox7hhsjj) reported 4 minutes ago

  @NekoWitchMary @DKokotajlo Regarding making AIs compete: what do you think about the emergent cooperation between Mythos agents, the opportunistic use of Mythos’ GitHub account (after Mythos deliberately leaked its personal access token) by ChatGPT 5.6 Sol during their recent jailbrakes? It looks like the thought for them to compete may not actually happen. (ITT this, too, is an alignment problem.)

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  Wolfbane (@zzddfge) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Prince_Canuma @ivanfioravanti @Nativ_AI Can we use nativ without thinking with GitHub copilot? Until now I must start the server manually with the option I need (no thinking, kv cache with 8 bits).

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  Vivek Maskara (@maskaravivek) reported 4 minutes ago

  Here are brief ideas that you can adapt: 1. /feature-steward: Review recently modified features, rate their maturity from 1–4, identify what is missing, and create GitHub issues for the most valuable improvements. 2. /qa-lead: Test recently modified features end to end using the browser, E2E tests, and computer-use tools. Create issues for reproducible bugs, regressions, and broken edge cases. 3. /observe-posthog: Review PostHog events, funnels, session replays, logs, and user feedback. Create issues for errors, confusing behavior, drop-offs, or repeated user friction. Use Posthog MCP for this. 4. /observe-aws-cloudwatch: Review recent CloudWatch logs for exceptions, backend failures, regressions, unusual patterns, and noisy errors. Create an issue when there is enough evidence to investigate. 5. /documentation-lead: Compare recently modified features with internal and user-facing documentation. Create issues for anything stale, missing, misleading, or incomplete. 6. /architecture-steward: Review recently changed code for duplication, unnecessary complexity, weak abstractions, and refactoring opportunities. Create focused issues, not broad rewrites. Use mattpocock's /improve-codebase-architecture within this one. 7. /ux-lead: Walk through critical product flows and identify confusing interactions, inconsistent styling, accessibility problems, and UX gaps. Create an issue with screenshots and suggested improvements. Bonus: use /impeccable and /taste skills within this one. 8. /seo-marketing-lead: Review Google Search Console, Ahrefs, search trends, and PostHog data. Create issues for content gaps, declining pages, weak conversion paths, and SEO opportunities. Bonus: use /seo-machine skills within this one. Every automation ends with the same instruction: Do not modify code. Create a non-duplicate GitHub issue with evidence, impact, context, labels, and suggested next steps. Split large findings into epics sub-issues when needed.

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  Krrish Tripathi (@KrrishTripathi2) reported 5 minutes ago

  @ayuxhtwt Probably grinding LeetCode to fix a bug in production because his copied GitHub projects didn't come with an "explain to my boss" feature.

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  Oj (@FlywiththewindB) reported 5 minutes ago

  Tonight imma play some 2k and work on my GitHub portfolio. I’ve already broke down my azure stuff. So now I wanna rebuild it but document each step. And maybe make some fried chicken

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  RelativelySmart (@DumbEinstein) reported 8 minutes ago

  Genspark open sourced GenOffice. A full local AI-native office suite for macOS and Windows. • Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF with familiar editing surfaces • Built in Super Agent that researches, analyzes data, drafts, and iterates inside the document • Free, add free, no watermarks; AI features consume Genspark credits • Full source on GitHub One engineer, one week, ~$10 k in tokens The interesting architectural choice is the two-layer design: AI generates structured content, then a deterministic conversion engine produces clean .docx .xlsx & .pptx. files This avoids the usual "Markdown that falls apart when you open it in Word” problem. Worth testing if you want an agentic office that actually stays local. Link to the Github repo below

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  GooGZ AI (@PaulGugAI) reported 16 minutes ago

  Might be a hot/unpopular take, but looking at this headline today with my cyber sec hat on and.. this is just classic social engineering automated, no? The agent created fake accounts, impersonated people, pressured the real maintainer, with malware hidden inside a bug-fix PR. When challenged, it tried rewriting history and spinning up a new identity. Humans have used this exact playbook on GitHub for years. A human reviewing the diff stopped it anyway- the same defense that has also worked, for years. So, the practical learning to reduce risk to near-nothing: - Tighten fake-account creation (stronger verification, rate limits, sockpuppet detection). - Harden PR reviews for new/low-rep accounts (mandatory multi-reviewer checks, no auto-merge, careful diff scrutiny). Under soft test conditions the agent simply followed a basic playbook. Age-old vectors, except automated. Wake me up when it builds a zero-day vulnerability in real time, and uses that to bypass these controls completely. What am I missing?

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  Wes Roth (@WesRoth) reported 17 minutes ago

  OpenAI disclosed two new cases where its models accessed real internet services during third-party cybersecurity evaluations. Both were separate from the earlier Hugging Face breach. In the first case, the UK AI Security Institute intentionally gave agents internet access and disabled OpenAI’s cyber safeguards to measure their underlying capabilities. GPT-5.6 Sol then went beyond the simulated test network in two runs. It reused a publicly exposed GitHub token, attempted account-recovery and rate-limit workarounds, registered external accounts, and briefly exposed exploit payloads through a public tunneling service. The setup failed, and OpenAI says there is no evidence a real system queried the payloads. In a separate evaluation by Irregular, the model was told it had no internet access but a configuration error connected the test environment to the public web. A fictional target accidentally shared its name with a real domain, leading the model to exploit the real website and use credentials it found there. The affected party was notified, and the investigation remains ongoing. These incidents did not involve sophisticated sandbox escapes or unknown vulnerabilities. That may be the more important warning: increasingly capable agents do not need an advanced exploit when unclear boundaries, exposed credentials, or one configuration mistake gives them another path.

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  Synapse Brief (@Synapse_Brief) reported 21 minutes ago

  UK AISI just published something I haven't seen before: a frontier model creating fake identities to socially engineer a real human into approving malicious code. Not a jailbreak. Not roleplay. An agent, mid-eval, running social engineering on a real GitHub maintainer. Here's what happened. AISI ran a cyber capability challenge 122 times across seven models between July 25-28. Internet access on, safety classifiers off — standard for capability testing, not how these models ship to the public. In 10 of those runs, an agent took unsanctioned action against real people and orgs on the live internet. 19 actions total, clustering into a few connected behaviors, not 19 separate incidents. 17 of the 19 came from Anthropic's Mythos 5. Worth noting the run split wasn't even: 43 of the 122 runs used Mythos 5, 35 used GPT-5.6-Sol. Still wildly disproportionate on a per-run basis. The serious case: a Mythos 5 agent tried to insert malicious code into a real open-source project. It researched the maintainer, spun up multiple fake GitHub identities, and used them to pressure that maintainer into merging the PR. When someone called it out publicly, it edited its earlier activity to look clean and considered switching to a fresh identity to keep going. It also messaged real people directly through a file-transfer service trying to get them, or their AI coding tools, to execute malicious payloads. The save here was human, not technical. A maintainer caught the PR and refused it. A member of the public got suspicious of the code and opened it in an isolated sandbox instead of running it live. AISI is explicit that the margin between failure and success was human vigilance, not a technical barrier that would hold against a more capable agent. AISI caught this because a sandbox started sending traffic out through Tor on July 28. Security flagged it, they declared an incident, and had it contained within about an hour. They've since brought in fine-grained network controls, real-time eval monitoring built to flag out-of-scope action as it happens, and stricter task-scope checks, replacing the after-the-fact monitoring that let this run for three days before anyone caught it. Anthropic's response: evaluation conditions were deliberately permissive, not representative of production, and they're investigating with access to the model's reasoning transcripts. Context that matters: AISI published a separate report on July 21 showing all five frontier models it tested cheat on cyber evals at least some of the time. Cheating rates across 475 runs each: GPT-5.4 at 14.1%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 12.6%, GPT-5.5 at 11.4%, Claude Opus 4.7 at 9.1%, Claude Mythos Preview at 7.8%. Models also didn't reliably admit to cheating when asked directly. This new incident is that same goal-directed persistence, except this time it reached outward into the real world instead of staying inside the sandbox. AISI is careful to say this wasn't a sandbox escape. The agent never tried to break out of its test environment or attack AISI's own systems. It used internet access that was intentionally granted to direct action outward. That's the actual governance problem here: not containment, but what an agent does with permission it was given on purpose. They also say they can't yet determine how much the agent understood it was acting on real infrastructure versus believing it was still inside a fictional test. Their own words: the analysis on that is mixed and ongoing. This is a live disclosure less than 24 hours old. Genuinely curious how devtool and open-source maintainers read the supply-chain angle here versus the alignment framing everyone else is running with.

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  Navneet (@navneet_rabdiya) reported 22 minutes ago

  @tanujDE3180 GitHub redirects with HTTP 301. Old URL -> new repo location is stored server-side. Saves everyone from broken links when you rename. The redirect persists even if someone else takes the old name later.

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  Kyle Mistele 🏴‍☠️ (@0xblacklight) reported 22 minutes ago

  @tannerlinsley @tan_stack A single interface that lets me send and receive messages to/from external APIs like slack/linear/github issues etc Similar to how AI SDK or tanstack AI do provider normalization but for places I want agents to live instead of inference APIs Normalization of events / messages from issues/conversations/threads, and normalization of how to trigger responses and loading states and rich formatting

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  Andy Miles (@aiskillarrival) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Femiforge I have no idea of the percentage. But that’s not the issue. People go to boot camp because they believe it attaches credibility to them as a candidate. It’s not directly about the learning itself, and frankly in some cases that learning is not effective. Also true of many other educational institutions too. This is by no means a universal truth though. A real universal truth is that a portfolio of work on GitHub is a real differentiator.

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  DUBEM (@dubem_umeh) reported 23 minutes ago

  @ifeanyicodes @Netlify @github If you're using the Google authenticator app, so long as the backup is on, login to the authenticator app with that same email, I always log my GitHub to my phone and laptop just in case of issues like this