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AI Ferryman Alex

Full-stack veteran (24+ yrs), formerly led 400 engineers, OSS maintainer. The AI revolution is here — I'm in it, learning in public, sharing the real stuff.

A backdoored Claude Code extension under a verified name: how to check your machine, and how to protect yourself

A backdoored Claude Code extension under a verified name: how to check your machine, and how to protect yourself

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GitHub put agents in Actions. Can a small project finally afford proper CI?

GitHub put agents in Actions. Can a small project finally afford proper CI?

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I rebuilt a 1.47 MB, 761,000-parameter intent router and raced it against if statements. The if statements won

I rebuilt a 1.47 MB, 761,000-parameter intent router and raced it against if statements. The if statements won

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DeepTutor, taken apart: its core trick fits in one skill, so why did 54,000 people star the platform around it?

DeepTutor, taken apart: its core trick fits in one skill, so why did 54,000 people star the platform around it?

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One robots.txt line to refuse AI training, and no single start date

One robots.txt line to refuse AI training, and no single start date

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LEANN cut a 60-million-passage index from 201GB to 6GB. Is trading disk space for waiting time worth it?

LEANN cut a 60-million-passage index from 201GB to 6GB. Is trading disk space for waiting time worth it?

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I scanned all the red-hot 3-character .si domains and picked out the 27 with the most investment value

I scanned all the red-hot 3-character .si domains and picked out the 27 with the most investment value

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Your home directory got deleted? Don't look for an intruder. It may have been your own hand

Your home directory got deleted? Don't look for an intruder. It may have been your own hand

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Tokens from 850 GitHub accounts were stolen, and 13,500 branches were planted with a workflow built to dump repository secrets

Tokens from 850 GitHub accounts were stolen, and 13,500 branches were planted with a workflow built to dump repository secrets

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274 Elvis songs were used to train AI. Here's how the rights holders found out

274 Elvis songs were used to train AI. Here's how the rights holders found out

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The clock in your prompt is quietly killing your cache

The clock in your prompt is quietly killing your cache

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You can buy Anthropic's stock, but you can't drive its car: the governance design inside the S-1

You can buy Anthropic's stock, but you can't drive its car: the governance design inside the S-1

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This is not alarmism: whoever holds superintelligence will end up ruling the world

This is not alarmism: whoever holds superintelligence will end up ruling the world

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Developing with AI right now: 11 field rules from a veteran

Developing with AI right now: 11 field rules from a veteran

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I tore down HumanLayer's source code: it leashes your coding agent, but sessions move to its cloud

I tore down HumanLayer's source code: it leashes your coding agent, but sessions move to its cloud

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