Charles

Charles

@charles.dardaman.com

AI | Hacking | Security | Malware | Founder/CTO (acq.) | CS PhD @UT_Dallas

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Using AI for cyber is the standard now. If you are hiring a red team who refuses to work with AI then ask them for a discount, because they are wasting time

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“Ok we need a rousing version of the national anthem.” “Gotcha boss, real smooth jazz rendition, just like you asked for” “Wut?”

Pretty strong comment in Nature today saying that AGI is here. "... the conclusion is straightforward: by reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent."

Management quantifies it by giving you a small raise and then denying all promotions as you’re too valuable to move up.

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com

How do you even quantify some team going around to people for weeks trying to figure out why something is happening, and they call you and you have it fixed in 15 minutes.

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Propose we replace "spot the fed" at DEF CON (since there's so many of them anyway) with "six degrees to Epstein" this year

I can't see why this would ever be good to do. Dying is a natural part of life and figuring out how to overcome grief and move on is good. Prolonging that for years while trying to trick yourself into thinking they are alive through AI is a terrible way to handle it.

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Our team at Google DeepMind is hiring for multiple roles in AI+materials. 🚀 We‘re pursuing an ambitious research program in materials and are looking for the world‘s best: - semiconductor experts - ml+materials researchers - lab automation engineers The vibes are great, join us!

Depending on the model size you might be surprised how much you can do while GPU poor, especially finetuning.

Doll@dollspace.gay

It would be really cool to train it’s own LLM but it highly doubts anyone would give it the GPU time to do it lol

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Going up against Joe Weisenthal is a real coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb moment from someone who’s about to find out they’re the baby

Just in the last 8 weeks the models have gotten exponentially more useful. Seems pretty clear this is a step change in how people will work with code in the future.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

Canaries in the coal mine. Worth paying attention to. (And yes, they are both obviously interested in seeing their own products used, but hearing enough from other, independent coders that make me believe them. I wrote more about the shift here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management...)

A significant amount of workers are using AI and then just not telling their bosses they are, so this stat doesn't surprise me at all. In fact the employees you want to keep probably want to cut out dull work with AI and the ones who don't are probably on your layoff list.

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Shields down

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com

CISA's acting director reportedly uploaded "sensitive contracting documents" to the public version of ChatGPT in violation of government rules, triggering a review. www.politico.com/news/2026/01... The misstep, and the leak about it, are the latest signs that Madhu Gottumukkala is struggling.

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It's good when technology makes it so that less toil is necessary to keep society functioning and advancing I believe this deeply and sincerely This is even an orthodox Marxist position

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There's little reason to convince people of LLMs usefulness they can just be left behind.

Getting tired of hearing "There are literally no use cases for LLMs" from people who think the only way to use an LLM is to type into chatgpt dot com, press enter, and hope for the best

Love the focus on safety with this robot and the minimization of pinch points. I just hope they can get the cost down from the starting 50k so that someone would actually put it in their home.

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social

Fauna is launching a safe, capable humanoid robot for builders, designed to be used in real environments.

If you know that all your PRs will be written by AI theres no point to accept them. Maybe theres some other future path such as someone giving tokens to pay for the AI to code up the feature they want instead.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

I cannot unsee the death of the pull request in open source upon us. PRs from external contributors made a lot of sense when it was hard to write code, and it took lots of time investment (+ lots of thinking!) to do so. Now that it takes seconds/minutes: dynamics change

Being able to use AI to tell me what color things are is an underrated use of it. Now it’s a lot easier for me to figure out what smoke alarm battery is low

This is obviously incorrect today. The value and ability for AI to be useful in white-collar work is apparent to everyone who uses it

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This is why I more treat it like an enthusiastic junior who probably never learned what SQL injection was in college, but they can still pump code out.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

Of course some of this can be avoided by prompting but when I give a task to someone senior, I don't need to clarify that they shouldn't create giant security issues during their implementation