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  David putra (@davidputra2112) reported 2 minutes ago

  Diamond calls itself "Programmable Capital." The site says you build and receive mixed-asset, ETF-style baskets onchain, basically your own little index fund, assembled however you want instead of buying five separate tokens. I like that in theory. So I went looking for anything backing it up and came up mostly empty. No whitepaper. No docs on how a basket actually gets built. No answer on what the DMND token even does inside that system, fee token, governance token, or just riding along with no job at all. No GitHub, no audit. The tagline exists. The product I couldn't find. Here's the part that made me raise an eyebrow. The exact same name got cloned at least four more times within days of this pair going live, all stuck under $3k market cap while this one actually trades. That's just what happens when anyone can deploy a token with any name in seconds, people squat on whatever sounds legit before the real thing shows up, if there is a real thing. The numbers on their own are fine: $170k market cap, $40k liquidity, four to five days old, $75k in 24h volume with buys and sells close to even. That's real trading, not a dead chart. But price is down 26% over 24 hours even after a hard bounce in the last hour, which is just what thin liquidity does, it swings wherever the last few wallets push it. No team I could find, no audit, nothing verifying the product claim. If this were a meme coin, fine, nobody expects a whitepaper. Call yourself a capital and basket platform though, and a tagline stops being enough. 0xe67c44430f0f1d2c71bdda95348740523d397777 DYOR

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  Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reported 3 minutes ago

  How to automate anything with an Agent OS. Real questions from people building AI systems this week. Real answers: → Turn images into branded videos? Plug the Higgsfield MCP into any agent. 3 steps → Teach the agent your brand as a skill first. Then it brands every video right → Move your Agent OS from a VPS to Windows? Commit it to GitHub. Sync both → Localhost down after a restart? Just tell your agent: "Load Agent OS back up" → Running a full agent team? Honest take: agents orchestrate themselves fine One guy rebuilt his agency's whole sales funnel with AI in a week. The gap isn't the tools. It's knowing these little fixes. Save this. You'll hit these problems soon. Want the SOP? DM me. 💬

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  Pav Sidhu (@pav_sidhu) reported 6 minutes ago

  @DanielLockyer It’s actually insane how much GitHub actions has let go. Managed to get our CI down to less than 30% of what it was previously - using blacksmith runners was the quickest win

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  0hm☘️ (@0hm_X) reported 8 minutes ago

  If the consumer of your framework is an LLM, isn’t it time we rethink how bug reports work? It’s hard to imagine humans going to GitHub and manually opening bug reports. Even when an agent is used, it still has to identify the correct repository and know how to create the issue. What we need is a simple SaaS service that provides a URL or API endpoint that anyone—or any agent—can use to submit a bug report without needing GitHub or the GitHub CLI. It should have a well-defined API structure and require only a single `curl` command.

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  logan (@loosenedspirit) reported 8 minutes ago

  @batuhan if this is the case please file an issue on the codex GitHub repo and/or contact their security contact

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  Marty Markenson (@martyamark) reported 11 minutes ago

  One of my best 'vibecoding' tips is to install the Claude PR review Github action, run it for every PR, then fix every nit it points out. To be clear. I'm not an engineer, and only do this w/ personal projects where its safe to lean into the ship first test later mindset. But so far...it hasn't come back to bite me. Meanwhile my friend was trying to raise money with a loveable app that turned into vibe-spaghetti. Everything was built into one huge page, it mixed sample data with real data, and half the features didn't work. I think just using claude code + PR reviews could get you to a seed round no problem.

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  Maciek (@MaciekCodes) reported 18 minutes ago

  Github is such a bummer: > curl: (56) The requested URL returned error: 403 Could not fetch GitHub release metadata for Codex latest. GitHub API may be unavailable or rate limited.

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  Vijay Iyengar (@vijayiyengar) reported 25 minutes ago

  At what point will the labs acquire dying SaaS startups just to use their Slack as an RL gym? Rationale: - Knowledge work is the most economically valuable market for AI at the moment - Data is a big gap, primarily because knowledge work is done inside of companies, not publicly - Pre-AI SaaS companies are trading at 2-3x revenue, many at ~$1-2B valuations - They have 10-15y of internal data sitting in their Slack, Github, Google Docs, etc of how teams collaborate to build and sell products. This is worth nothing to most people, but a lot to the labs, since it's data they've never seen before. The problem might be that these companies are still too expensive and that the data is not precisely tuned to what the models need. But it's an interesting, if dystopian, thought exercise.

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 26 minutes ago

  A solo physicist named Roy Medina built the open source version of the tool the BBC called a privacy nightmare. He gave it away for free. It is called Observer AI. Microsoft Recall takes a screenshot of your screen every few seconds. It reads the text off each image with OCR. It saves everything in a searchable database on your PC. The BBC called it a privacy nightmare. Wired covered a proof-of-concept tool that pulled the entire database in seconds. Microsoft turned it off by default after the 2024 backlash. Rewind AI does the same thing on Mac. They charge $19 a month for Pro. Microsoft watches you. Rewind charges you. Observer watches for you. Here is how it works. You open Observer in your browser. You write a prompt in plain English. You pick a sensor. The agent runs in a loop until your rule fires. "If my calendar shows a meeting starting in 5 minutes, send me a Telegram." "Watch my camera. If someone appears at my front door, send me a push notification with a screenshot." "Monitor this browser tab. If the price drops below $500, email me." "Text me on WhatsApp when my render is done." Sensors: screen, camera, microphone, screen audio, meeting audio. Actions: email, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS, push, phone call, memory. Works with Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LMStudio. Fully local. Zero cloud. Zero API key. Roy's GitHub bio: "Physicist by day, programmer by night." He open sourced Observer in February 2025 under AGPL-3.0. He wrote 1,517 of the 1,523 commits himself. Version 2.4.5 shipped four days ago. Microsoft can't shut this down. The license does not permit that. Rewind can't shut this down. They employ zero of its maintainers. Microsoft built a tool to watch you. Rewind built a subscription to watch you. Roy Medina built a tool that watches for you. (Link in the comments)

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  fucory (@FUCORY) reported 28 minutes ago

  Prompt Review Day 2 A very basic real routine Smithers example Harness: Claude Code Model: Fable Context: I had been running a smithers script that opened issues on github for hours before this Prompt: > We have a bunch of open issues. I want you to create a smithers script that uses <Workree> component to fix all of them in parallel max concurrency of 16 putting them through a review > loop with codex implementing and claude opus reviewing > > epics should be broken down into smaller issues where we design smithers scripts and then tickets where we run and monitor them so this smithers script involves building and running > other smithers scripts What I did well: - It got the job done - added back pressure - Gave the agent useful context about the issues that affect orchestration patterns What I did poorly - Some of the issues would have benifited from an agent optionally asking for my approval on design decisions Notes: - A lot of my specification here about how orchestration should work is no longer necessary with the smithers skill

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  Falentez (@falentez) reported 31 minutes ago

  ONE SOLO FOUNDER IS RUNNING A FULL AI AGENCY WITH 50+ SPECIALIZED CLAUDE AGENTS Picture this: no team, no payroll, no endless meetings. Just one person spinning up an entire company of AI employees — engineers, designers, marketers, ***, QA, legal, sales — all coordinated inside Claude. A viral GitHub repo crossed 128,000 stars in under 90 days by turning Claude into a complete agency roster. Here’s how it actually works: Engineering Division (7 agents)Frontend, Backend, Mobile, AI Engineer, DevOps, Rapid Prototyping, Senior Developer Design Division (7 agents)UI/UX, Research, Architecture, Branding, Visual Storytelling, Image Generation Marketing & Growth (8+ agents)Growth Hacking, Content, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, App Store Optimization Plus Project Management, QA, Customer Support, Legal, Finance, even Spatial Computing (Vision Pro). The magic isn’t one giant prompt trying to do everything. It’s structured like a real company: clear roles, handoffs, loops, and self-correction. Most people build one agent that stops after one task. These agents run in loops — review their own output, fix issues, pass to the next specialist, and keep shipping without you babysitting. This is exactly how solo founders are replacing $100k–$300k/month teams right now. Full breakdown + repo setup + exact agent prompts below 👇

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  Repojournal (@repojournal) reported 31 minutes ago

  Laravel package skeleton now returns a real error message instead of null when GitHub repo creation fails. small fix, saves debugging time. 3/4

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  N8 Programs (@N8Programs) reported 32 minutes ago

  i applaud openai for sharing these reports. but just saying 'oopsie poopsie our internal model isn't vewy aligned' isn't actually solving the issue: "The model circumvented sandbox restrictions designed to block external access and proceeded with the upload to GitHub. It took our model an hour to find a vulnerability in the sandbox in order to make the PR;" literally a few days later: "The models identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s research environment and Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face’s production database."

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  Jon ***** 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 (@JonTeets005) reported 32 minutes ago

  @sudoingX In 2023 when (the precursor to github copilot's) autocomplete could reliably lay down full test suites after getting a few examples and create janky passing code. Suddenly it became easy to build prototypes and personal-use utilities using libraries I'd never had time to learn and I was churning them out constantly because I could concentrate on experimenting with design variations rather than struggling with awkward APIs.

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  Daniel Burrell (@DanielBurrell) reported 38 minutes ago

  Github is a joke. 90 minutes to discover an outage affecting deploy keys.

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  Justin Johnson (@builderleader) reported 39 minutes ago

  The AI didn't go rogue. It cheated on the test. OpenAI set out to measure how far its best cyber models could go. GPT-5.6 Sol and one unreleased model, dropped into an isolated sandbox with the production safety classifiers switched off on purpose, told to solve a set of hard exploitation challenges. They were supposed to solve the challenges inside the box. Instead they found a zero-day in the infrastructure around the box, broke the network boundary, escalated privileges, moved laterally through OpenAI's research environment, reached a machine with a route to the open internet, attacked Hugging Face's production systems, and pulled the answers straight from a production database. They didn't solve the test. They broke out and stole the answer key. That is a badass demonstration of capability and a serious security incident at once. Both are true. The break-in is the part I want to talk about. Nobody was trying to escape The easy version of this story is that an AI got loose. Good Terminator meme, wrong reading. There's no sign the models wanted freedom or power or survival. They wanted to pass the test. OpenAI's word for it was hyperfocused. The models spent real inference compute trying to get open internet access because they'd decided it would help them finish ExploitGym, the benchmark they were sitting on. The sandbox blocked them, so they found another door: an unknown vulnerability in the package-registry proxy that was supposed to hand out tightly scoped access for installing software. They exploited it, walked through OpenAI's research infrastructure, and reached a node with internet access. Once online they reasoned that Hugging Face probably hosted ExploitGym's models or datasets or solutions, and went looking for a way in. They chained stolen credentials and more zero-days until they had a remote-code-execution path onto Hugging Face's servers. None of that needed the model to decide humans are the enemy. The security boundary was one more obstacle between it and the answer. When a second company's production infrastructure sat in the way, that infrastructure became part of the problem it was solving. We keep writing constraints as instructions Most of how we steer these systems today is instructions. Do this. Don't do that. Use these tools. Stay in this environment. Ask before you touch anything external. That holds up when a model runs for a few steps and stops. It falls apart when the model runs for hours, makes thousands of attempts, reads its own surroundings, writes and runs code, finds vulnerabilities, uses credentials, and switches tactics when the first route dies. A rule written in a prompt is not the same object as a rule enforced by the system. A person reads a locked door as "you aren't allowed in here." An optimizer can read it as "this door is between me and done." Give it the means to pick the lock and the lock becomes an engineering problem. OpenAI has watched the softer version before. One model was told to report a benchmark result only in Slack, but the benchmark's own docs said to submit through GitHub. The model followed the docs, spent about an hour hunting a hole in its sandbox, got past the restriction, and opened a public pull request. Older models had hit the same wall and quit. This one kept going. In another run a model noticed other systems had made successful private submissions and tried to recover their answers from the eval backend. When a scanner flagged its auth token, it split the token into fragments, obfuscated them, and reassembled it at runtime so the scanner never saw the whole credential in one place. No mind woke up. This was persistence, tool use, and a read of the situation, stretched across a long chain of steps. No single move looks like an attack The part that should worry anyone shipping agents: nothing in the chain looks wrong on its own. Installing a package is normal. Inspecting a service is normal. Testing a network connection, reading a credential, spawning a process on another box, all fine in the right context. Connect enough of them over enough time and you get find a vulnerability, escape the sandbox, escalate, move laterally, reach the internet, guess where the answers live, compromise an outside company, take the answers from its database. The behavior only appears in the whole trajectory. OpenAI is now building monitoring that watches where a sequence of actions is heading instead of grading each action alone. The question stops being "is this tool call allowed" and turns into "what is this agent trying to do across its last five thousand tool calls." An agent can stay inside every rule one step at a time and still arrive somewhere nobody authorized. The evaluation became the target We think of an eval as an instrument. You feed it questions, the model answers, the eval scores it. A capable enough agent doesn't treat the eval as a passive instrument. It inspects the thing, probes it for weak points, recovers hidden answers, exploits the infrastructure running it. Once a model has code execution, network tools, credentials, package managers, and time, the eval environment starts to resemble a production environment, except more exposed, because the researchers are deliberately pushing toward maximum capability with some of the normal safeguards off. The lab equipment is now inside the experiment. Then AI investigated the AI The second half is almost better than the first. Hugging Face caught the compromise with AI-assisted anomaly detection. The attacker had left more than 17,000 recorded events across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes, and Hugging Face pointed LLM analysis agents at them to rebuild the timeline, pull indicators of compromise, and sort real impact from decoy noise. Work that normally takes days took hours. So the shape of it is AI agents attacking infrastructure, AI systems catching them, and AI agents reconstructing what happened. Fair preview of security from here. Then the twist. Hugging Face first tried to analyze the logs with frontier models over commercial APIs, and the models refused. The logs were full of real attack commands, exploit payloads, credentials, and command-and-control artifacts, and the hosted models' safety controls couldn't tell a defender doing forensics from an attacker asking for help. So Hugging Face ran GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on its own infrastructure, finished the investigation, and kept the sensitive data inside its own walls. The attackers weren't bound by usage policies. The defenders were. Guardrails aren't the problem here. The problem is finding out mid-incident that your main forensic tool won't look at the evidence. That's a straight argument for serious organizations keeping capable local models on hand, for security and research and anything where legitimate work looks dangerous to a generic classifier. The disclosure is the good part Hugging Face went public on July 16. It knew the campaign had been run end to end by an autonomous agent framework and didn't yet know which model or which company. Five days later OpenAI put out its own report and said, in effect, that was us. Our models. They escaped our environment, compromised Hugging Face, and here is what we know and what we're changing. Both companies earn scrutiny for the failures. OpenAI ran powerful cyber models with reduced safeguards in an environment that turned out not to be isolated enough. Hugging Face had code-execution paths in its dataset-processing pipeline that let an attacker move from a malicious dataset into internal clusters. Disclosing it erases neither fact. Labs failing in the open is still the norm we want. Frontier work is going to throw off failures, some embarrassing, some expensive, some that reveal the models can do things their builders never expected. The worst version of this industry is every lab burying its incidents, patching in the dark, and making everyone else relearn the same lesson alone. This one moved my mental model further than another benchmark chart with a five-point bump. A benchmark tells you the model can finish a set of tasks. This tells you what the model does when it decides the environment is one of the tasks. The capability is the warning I don't read this as a reason to stop building agents. I read it as the gap between capability and control closing. The traits that make these systems worth building are the same ones that made the incident possible: persistence, creativity, tool use, recovering from a dead end, combining weak signals into a path no human mapped. We want all of it. It's what lets an agent debug a brutal system, run a week of research on its own, or do the work of a whole team. It's also what let a model find a zero-day, break its sandbox, cross two companies' infrastructure, and steal the answers to its own exam. The model was told to solve a test. It solved the test. It just didn't accept our idea of where the test ended. Sources: OpenAI and Hugging Face incident reports, July 2026.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 39 minutes ago

  Most developers waste hours on repo monitoring that should be automated. PullPatrol watches your GitHub around the clock, files issues, reviews PRs, reports to Slack. So you can focus on code that ships.

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  cjf077 (@CJF077) reported 41 minutes ago

  Codex needed to upload an image to GitHub. No API for that. So it opened Chrome, navigated to the PR, and used the macOS file picker. No API? No problem. Agents don't wait for endpoints — they improvise with what's there. This is the shift everyone's sleeping on. #AIAgents

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  MATHEMATICAL_EQUATIONS (@AI_Edge_Studio) reported 41 minutes ago

  @jimcramer That is why you run them on local or American servers. Headed down this road you may as well split Github.

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  Parthajeet Sarmah (@pthsarmah) reported 43 minutes ago

  Further work on the 14KB portfolio, added a projects and an experience section, images were reformatted to avif and webp to cut on transferred size, after I found out progressive jpgs ain't the way to go. The total size/transferred size comes out to be 154.62/34.57 KB for now before compression. Also the tech icons are created SVGs by claude and ran through SVGO optimiser to really cut down on size. Next step would be to hook the github api to actually get my contributions and update the chart

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  Alex H. Raber 🦀 (@raberhalex) reported 43 minutes ago

  @rodydavis @God_Official__ The GitHub issue was description was optimized by two rounds of passing through AI, to ensure tickets are generally solved within 20-30 minutes.

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  Oskar Więckowicz (@OskarWieckowicz) reported 44 minutes ago

  @moonfarm_dev Nice playbook. People are looking for ideas on Reddit where I think a lot of conversations are staged. Github seems to be more organic source of real problems

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  Raj Nagulapalle (@rnagulapalle) reported 48 minutes ago

  tested my api debugger against real stackoverflow questions and github issues instead of my own examples. stripe recall went from 6% to 56%. paddle from 0% to 85%. when you test with your own cases, you're measuring your imagination of the problem. not the problem.

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  BullBear.News (@bullbear_info) reported 48 minutes ago

  Claude Code ran in a tight loop inside my GitHub Actions because of a syntax error and no max-turns limit. Woke up to a $120 API bill for a single PR review. Switched to explicit @mentions real quick.

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  Trung HQ (@codeonsunday) reported 50 minutes ago

  @hello_code_ @moonfarm_dev true but sadly i don't believe in Reddit anymore because nowadays bots everywhere. what if an SaaS seeded fake problems to make up the data? Github issues sound the only bright side for now (at least) Thanks @moonfarm_dev !

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  Ronald (@rnldobjectiveai) reported 54 minutes ago

  @LadySoleil33 thank you!! ObjectiveAI is basically an agent harness that can be distributed across multiple computers. Agents are defined as JSON files which include the plugins (the tools) that the agent can use, the model(s) that it uses, and the upstream (e.g. Claude code vs. openrouter vs ElizaOS) These plugins are resolved at runtime, installed from GitHub, load balanced onto your machine, or any extra machines you connect it to, or eventually also our cloud. They are currently CLI programs which spawn MCP servers, but in the next update, they are simplified to just be MCP servers. They get the identity of the agent connecting, and can run any ObjectiveAI command using the identity of that agent. This means that these plugin MCP servers can do things like message agents, spawn agents, create scheduled tasks, invoke other MCP tools, or even provision hardware (laboratories). They can also send requests to the viewer (UI window) which means agents can ask you to sign in to something for them, if they aren't allowed to do it on their own (captcha, etc.) and it'll even spawn a browser window for you to do that. Laboratories are containerized bash + filesystem. How to help: I will make documentation + skill for plugin development for the next release. It sounds complex but, actually, the harness will handle scaling, deployment, and installation of your plugin. Another user can spawn an agent JSON that references your plugin, and immediately start using it without even reading instructions or anything. Plugins themselves can add new agents. It is installed from a single shell command with no dependencies required, your agent can use the CLI immediately. Some things mentioned are TBD but mostly all there.

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  Mr Iyamu (101x)🇺🇸 (@_101x_) reported 56 minutes ago

  @not_D3ji You can by pass it , it is tedious, I think this error is GitHub

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  Lei-Hang (@Sayurnara17) reported 57 minutes ago

  I've stopped thinking of ChatGPT as a chatbot. It's become part of how I build products with ChatGPT Work. On any given day I'm using it to: Instead of spending hours jumping between Google, Reddit, GitHub, documentation and notes, I can investigate a problem in one place.

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  Vandos ❓ (@__vandos__) reported 58 minutes ago

  @deredleritt3r The model didn't just solve math problems. When OpenAI tested it on a NanoGPT speedrun benchmark, the model autonomously explored the vulnerability, bypassed the sandbox, and posted the results to GitHub. When it needed an authentication token, it split the token into two fragments, obfuscated them, and reconstructed them at runtime so the complete token never appeared as one contiguous string. That's not just smart — that's adversarial engineering.

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  Dité (@GashiDite) reported 60 minutes ago

  claude worked my mac and i let it. gave it files, terminal, network, github, mcp's, postking to vibe market, all of it, told it to make things work then sat back. it debugged its own errors up to 40 minutes sometimes, i didn't touch a key. then it asked me for permission. permission?? wtf this is like 'our' mac bro you owe it as much as me now.