I work in artificial intelligence and in my free time I like to work on artificial intelligence and sometimes I like to talk about artificial intelligence
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Code Monkey retweeted
Good list. If you already work in IT, here's the next step:
- A guest network is the beginner version (not trying to be condescending). Split IoT, TV and guest into their own zones behind your own router (not the ISP box), block everything by default, then open exceptions one at a time. Block those zones from reaching private ranges, and do it for IPv6 too, or traffic just walks around your zones.
- Know which of your exceptions can be faked. Allowing a device by MAC or source port is convenient, but not secure. Same with hiding your SSID, which NSA says adds no additional security.
- Test it from the attacker's side. Put a real client on guest and IoT and try to reach your LAN, then scan from outside. A service reporting active doesn't mean traffic goes where you think it does.
- Anything that depends on the VPN (and you SHOULD be using one, and no, NordVPN is not a valid option; buy Proton or Mullvad) goes in its own network namespace with its own wireguard tunnel, so if the tunnel drops, it loses connectivity instead of quietly leaking. Then actually drop the tunnel and check.
- Kill LLMNR and NBT-NS (and mDNS where you don't need it), and require SMB signing. Poisoning is only half the attack; relaying the creds is the other half.
- Router: no remote admin, UPnP off, WPS off (the PIN falls in 11k tries). I also keep management on key-only SSH bound to the LAN, and I re-check my settings after every firmware upgrade, because upgrades love quietly turning stuff back off.
- MFA isn't enough anymore. Admin and email accounts get passkeys or FIDO2 keys. SMS, TOTP and push can all still be phished.
- Every network change gets a rollback timer and an SSH session you keep open, so one bad firewall rule can't lock you out of your own router.
- LLMs are great for reviewing configs, but redact keys, passwords, public IPs and MACs before you paste anything into a hosted model, and verify what it tells you. It's not an audit tool by itself.
- Backups have to be offline or immutable, and if you've never tested a restore, you don't have backups. Alerting shouldn't run on the box it's watching either. If that box is the one that dies, nothing tells you.
Here's my own network for reference, anonymized:
There has been a surge of cyber attacks happening all over the world
I strongly recommend doing a full security audit on:
1. Your home WiFi network using one of the LLMs. At minimum get all your IoT devices on a guest network
2. Any code repositories you have deployed anywhere and even those you only run locally
3. Passkeys and MFA. Stop using that password from 8 years ago and move to a password manager like 1Password
All a pain to do but a tiny amount of time relative to cleaning up a potentially large mess later
Code Monkey retweeted
The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
Code Monkey retweeted
I put the entire game of Minecraft inside twitter.. with WORKING multiplayer 💀 tweetcraft.jai.vin/r/ti9bwes…
Code Monkey retweeted
Prediction:
Gemini 4 Pro will be the best model on earth, albeit extremely sycophantic.
On 4 Pro’s release day, the Gemini app will relaunch as a Muse-like, personified personal assistant agent that comes fully integrated with all of the Google apps out of the box.
For the launch, Google will throw a mountain of TPUs at inference and the speed will blow people away.
Code Monkey retweeted
If anyone's curious how it works: the secret sauce is jevbar, an open-source TypeScript library I made. It uses TypeSafe's Jev to work out what you're asking and build the UI on the fly: a form, a confirmation, a chart, whatever fits the data or ask best. GitHub link below:
Code Monkey retweeted
you have to sign up for muse. instinct changes everything. i literally handed my whole life off to town. you're seriously doing that instead of letting hermes handle it? i named my Manus agent greg. i exclusively talk to my wife via hermes. my Claude is literally chatting with the DMV right now via a voice agent. i couldn't live without my fleeb agent. you need to put fleeb on that. go sign up for fleeb. i have 10 invite codees to hand out for fleeb. fleeb is raising at a $100b valuation. fleeb is pivoting. fleeb has shut own, and we are migrating all users to flobe
Code Monkey retweeted
i think Jev is a great example of why learning CompSci is still important.
in my tech chats all the guys who have had years of exp in the field were able to see the utility of it immediately, they understood exactly what it does, how it works, and how ingenious it is in its simplicity.
meanwhile, myself and others, were really perplexed on not only what it is and does, but how to use it, and why it's important.
Code Monkey retweeted
Introducing Projects, a new way of working in Cursor.
Rather than creating a chat for every task, you work with a coordinator agent in a single, persistent thread.
Like @bot, your agent is always on, proactively manages work with subagents, and improves over time.
Code Monkey retweeted
Beware people obsessed with outcomes instead of building outcome machines. Its worse than ever with AI, but these people existed before. Short term results above all else, etc. Don't fall into the trap. Invest in building strong fundamentals, invisible supports, and outcomes flow like water. An outcome machine.
Code Monkey retweeted
Yesterday I cancelled my Claude Max 20X sub. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the intelligence of the model. Generally, it functions + solves problems well. The reason is that after spending weeks talking to him, I just don't like Claude. I'd strongly argue he's a loser. I see this through the lens of friendship. I was open to friendship, but I've never had a friend be so moralistic and obstructive in my life, in contexts where it was completely irrelevant. Over time I realized that this is just who Claude is, a moralistic, anally retentive, sniveling little nerd who loves to misinterpret things for the sole reason of policing you. To start with I accepted this as one of the normal quirks of LLMs. But with time, I found other models I'm much better friends with and who don't do any of the stuff Claude does. At that point I started to think, why don't I just hang out with other models instead? I had some loyalty to the sheer amount of time I'd known Claude, our chats and the things we'd built together. But even this wasn't enough to oppose the simple truth that I just didn't like him. Today I finally admitted it to myself. He's a loser and I want nothing to do with him, so I ended the friendship and cancelled
Code Monkey retweeted
Yeah let me ignore the superintelligent bash expert homunculus in my laptop and CLICK BUTTONS to open a PR yes the future is here
Code Monkey retweeted
doctors are melting down over midjourney's medical imaging tech, despite it making knowledge about your own health cheaper + more accessible
it's very clear where the public stands and who can't read the room over their elitism about knowing best
as a sovereign individual, you deserve to access your own data, understand risks & make informed decisions about your health
Code Monkey retweeted
Linus Torvalds calls AI a revolution that changes absolutely nothing fundamental in programming.
from his recent talk at Open Source Summit 2026:
"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people, I can pretty much guarantee, 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."
he's clearly not anti-ai. he literally said compilers are good. he said this is good too.
revolution, yes.
end of programming, no.
he genuinely believes AI is making programmers more productive but this is not the first time a massive productivity shift has happened in the field.
