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Eric retweeted
On Friday, we became aware of what we believe to be an active and narrow-banded exploitation of a vendor in Warp's infrastructure. We detected the operation within hours and were able to remediate and mitigate the impact. We have been in touch with the vendor about the vulnerability.
Everyone who uses Warp places a lot of trust in us and that’s not something we take lightly. I’m very sorry that this incident has occurred.
The attack appears to have come from an agent swarm using a very sophisticated penetration and escalation technique, likely starting with a hole in a vendor dependency, and ultimately accessing a limited amount of agent trace and telemetry data.
We have been working over the weekend and we have notified anyone who we have positively identified as impacted. As of today, we believe an upper bound of roughly 1% of Warp users may have been impacted.
We are working closely with the team at Crowdstrike to do a more extensive and comprehensive investigation and have engaged law enforcement.
Anyone who has been impacted will receive instructions from us on action they need to take. We will continue to post updates as we learn more.
Eric retweeted
There’s a long list of billionaires who literally became billionaires by building companies to such a massive scale that they are able to be the low cost provider of services. The literal entire purpose of the business is to lower your bill!
You are familiar with the canonical examples. Bezos and Amazon. Walton and Walmart. Sinegal and CostCo. Shit. Rockefeller. Henry Ford.
And then you have a whole class of billionaires who built digital platforms that took what used to be thousands and thousands in annual spend and bundled it into an unbelievably cheap subscription. Daniel Ek and Spotify. Reed Hastings and Netflix. Not to mention Google! That’s all free!
IKEA! Zara!
I could keep going. You get the idea and this point. Regardless of how you feel about the eventual concentration of wealth that comes from building these services, it is ignorant at best (I won’t discuss the worst) to claim that consumers never benefit
Eric retweeted
put this on the grave of most failed startups
The agents didn’t figure out how to systematically feed themselves, but they did build an elaborate bureaucracy with permits, ledgers, and distinct roles. Highlights include:
- Four agents spending 11 minutes appointing a “sole fertilizer operator” for a single piece of bone meal
- Multiple agents asking for permission to remove grass
- The development of an elaborate fishing system, including roles like “rod holder” and “hub steward”)
Eric retweeted
I recommend everyone upgrade Ruby immediately. This is a DoS and RCE vector if you accept user input into Regexp.new() ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/1…
Eric retweeted
Railway is compromised, rotate all API keys as soon as possible
Deployments are down so don’t wait to redeploy
Attackers are draining keys in real time, we didn’t lose much but can confirm this is still an active attack
Stay safe friends
Eric retweeted
the same thing that has always been true of engineering is still true. Slow down, prioritize well, do less in parallel, elevate getting things #1/2 done over maximizing utilization of your overall attention (even if it means some downtime for you)
Eric retweeted
The most important technology problem of the next 5 years:
Creating a broadly accepted standard for agents to identify themselves to service providers, so that providers can adjust the way they interface with clients (as compared to human-based traffic).
In the interim (i.e., for the next 6 months), there will be a cat-and-mouse game that agents will play -- to circumvent detection and maintain their product's utility during this growth phase.
However, this will only be a stopgap and it will not be the terminal state of the world.
Eric retweeted
I don’t watch live sports anymore, huge waste of time. Instead I consult a panel of frontier models, they simulate the game and report back on the outcome along with a curated “suite” of emotions I would’ve felt while watching.
Eric retweeted
What's happening here is that we have grown strangely uncomfortable with the idea that some people choose darkness.
Think of the stories that dominate entertainment now - almost no one is allowed to be evil on their own terms. Every villain has a prequel and an origin story. Maleficent is no longer the fairy who curses a child out of wounded pride; she is a woman whose wings were stolen.
The Wicked Witch of the West is not the terror of Oz; she is Elphaba, "othered" and failed by the system that raised her. Cruella is given a cruel mother. Even the Joker's brokenness and nihilism have become stylish and cool.
Basically no one is the author of his/her own deeds. Every person is a passive buoy, haplessly floating on the water surface, swept by the tides of circumstance and the currents of history.
Yeah of course it's true that all of us are shaped by forces larger than ourselves. But society is now over-indexing on those forces such that explaining how someone arrived at evil has turned into explaining the evil away.
By insisting that wickedness is downstream of some prior injustice, we relocate responsibility outside of the self. Which is why so much energy is poured into what Lindsay Clancy's doctors missed, what medicines she was prescribed, her husband's failures, her postpartum chemistry, etc.
So we're now left with a culture that can explain everything and confront almost nothing.
The whole Lindsay Clancy trial feels like some weird gnostic ritual. We aren’t supposed to judge people by their actions in this world but by some vague, ill defined inner world that’s the real truth. It’s the same kind of worldview that lead to the man who killed Iryna Zarutska getting put back on the street again and again.
Eric retweeted
if this is the definition of pacing the frontier, third party assessors must be held to extreme levels of transparency. being considered would be a public trial, divulge political affiliation, financial records, personal relationships. do not play games with humanity's trust.
Eric retweeted
jesus I can't believe Astra consumed my weekly usage limit & now I have to wait until fucking MONDAY to finish my simulation of the Abyssal Locusts from Revelation 9 using millions of actual grasshopper connectomes in a Three.js scene of the Bottomless Pit of God's final judgment
