Laurie Voss retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Laurie Voss retweeted
npm co-founder @seldo: your job as a dev is now deciding what to build --> become a product engineer
Laurie also equates AI right now to the web in 1997: still early, a bubble that will pop but tech that is here to stay, and nobody knows yet who the long-term major players will be.
Now head of DevRel at @arizeai, Laurie joined me to discuss:
- the new era of product engineering
- how cheap code makes niche software viable & what that means for OSS
- the missing junior ladder
- Ai bubble risks
& more
Chapters:
(0:00) The shift in software jobs
(0:44) Why Laurie is optimistic about the code generation explosion
(3:06) The aha moment moves from typing code to thinking
(5:49) Where agents still need human review and operational knowledge
(8:51) Is college still worth it?
(9:54) Bootcamps versus theory-heavy CS courses
(13:04) We are all product engineers now
(15:55) AI is the web in 1997
(18:19) Exponential growth, the labs' pause, and npm's ten-year curve
(20:07) Barring AGI, AI is a normal technology
(21:48) Block's layoffs and companies staying smaller
(23:14) What the labor data shows: fewer people, more capital
(26:29) Open source as the canary: drowning in AI pull requests
(28:11) AI reimplementations and the pressure on software moats
(30:26) Personal software and the kill-my-SaaS hackathon
(32:32) The bakery and the return of the systems analyst
(34:09) Niche software for specific industries
(35:36) Bootstrapping and the DevTools opportunity
(37:13) What this means for the model companies
(38:20) Frontier-model margins and open-model competition
(39:53) How the bubble pops: scaling laws and diminishing returns
(43:24) Staying private and the trough of disappointment
(45:51) Get good at a domain, not the technology
(50:44) The missing junior ladder is the question of our time
(53:32) Closing thoughts: it's 1997, you can retrain
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- @WalrusProtocol - Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory that carries context across apps, sessions, and other agents: walrus.xyz/cot
- @g2i_ai - a decade of vetting engineers, now turned on reviewing the RL environments, evals, and training data models learn from: fandf.co/3SFxVm6
- @inngest - durable execution for agents in production. Failed steps retry; completed steps are saved and skipped: inngest.link/cot-pod
Look up the @chain_ofthought podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts (links below), or wherever you listen. Thanks, Laurie!
13 years ago I thought "I should write a blog post about the economics of open source" but the outcome was too depressing. After noodling on it for a decade, I have finally finished the post. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but hey, a lot has changed.
seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-…
Observe, @arizeai's annual conference on the cutting edge of observability and evaluation, is Thursday of this week! You can still make it by using code `ARIZECOMMUNITY50` to get yourself a ticket!
Register today: arize.com/observe
I have absolutely no connection to any crypto shit going on that's using my name right now. Do not use crypto.
Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring! Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world!
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
Laurie Voss retweeted
Check out our very own @seldo at TS AI Conf!
it takes one to know one
tsai builders, that is
@seldo from @arizeai and @denise_teng25 from @GradientVC are emceeing tomorrow's TSAI conf
livestream starts 9:35am PT
tsconf.ai
I'm back in SF and actively searching the streets for Wily. If you see her, DO NOT approach her, just call me: 4152185520.
FOUND!!!
At 3am on a total million to one chance I was up and decided to poke my head out our front door and she was right there. She knew her way home.
She's skinnier than when we left but no visible damage. Vet in the morning.
My beloved dog Wily is lost in SF. Please help return her by calling SF Animal Control at 415-554-9400 if spotted.
Do I know any Python open-source people who would be interested in working on LlamaIndex open source full time? jobs.ashbyhq.com/llamaindex/…
DevRel folks, come work with me! We are hiring a Senior Developer Relations Engineer, a fun combination of coding, writing and speaking. It's an exciting time to be joining us! jobs.ashbyhq.com/llamaindex/…
Hello, web nerds! I have a job that may be of interest to you: @llama_index is hiring a full-stack engineer (think: modern React front-end talking to an API). Now's an exciting time to be joining the company! DM if you'd like to chat more before applying.
jobs.ashbyhq.com/llamaindex/…
If you're looking for @SunOfSeldo this year it's over on Bsky as sunofseldo.com
















