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The title is highlighting an unexpected exposure path. (Not my submission.) An unfortunately common combination. Agreed that the issue is in Linux, somehow the go surface area makes the situation much worse though.

Unfortunate news for Caddy which exposes unpatched Linux systems (confirmed) and may be common in container setups. Unclear if the container engine as a middle man actually helps mitigate the issue.

It actually trigged installation of WordCraft to fix the document and export as pdf. Maybe it won't do everything Word does, but it did this task well. Now I'm willing to use it again, especially considering I don't want to subscribe for basic computer use.

Casually opening a Word document to do some adjustments, a number of popups appeared. Word is disabled until buying a M365 license. It's not that it doesn't get updated, editing is disabled. How on earth do they get away with this?

The era of automatic code washing is upon us. The ability to cleanroom reverse engineer and reimplement any software with little effort. Software value in free fall.

Perhaps it’s about taking pride in one’s work. The feeling of mastery. “I understood this. I solved it. Doesn’t that matter?”

Maybe being right, doing the right thing, and solving difficult problems isn’t what makes the world tick. But perhaps it’s what makes you tick.

And realizing that the world doesn’t necessarily value what gives your work meaning is a loss that needs to be grieved.

Thank you for the kind words. Agreed that writing is process oriented and I'll have to work on that. This experiment has been on the top of my mind for a long time and it feels good to finally share it. It's been a long process.

Analysing the shape of the output is an excellent idea, it would be interesting to see which abstractions surfaced, and which did not. There are a lot of programming paradigms in high-level language that I'm curious to see if they are there or not.

And I do gloss over libmuffintop, and I think it might be worthy of its own post. It is the thinnest cross platform abstraction layer I could come up with. It's implemented in LLVM IR directly. The main idea is to remove as many abstractions as possible between the prompt and the machine. I wanted to see if the abstractions are necessary for agents, it seems that they are not.

Love it. Hate it.

The everything computer makes yet another one gigantic leap for machinekind.

I don’t know how to feel about it anymore.

All will end up on same plateau eventually. RSI is just a phase on the way there.

True that.