dessa will bring character realism to a whole new level in ai video i generated this short clip from one of the audio samples

today was my “holy fuck” moment with ai data recently, we have been targeting higher end companies willing to sell their data. before this change our average deal was around $250-$400k but nowadays it is closer to $1.1-$1.3m with a far more spread out distribution. enter, John, his dad owns a manufacturing business located in Indiana. John got his dad to ask his fellow manufacturing friends if they wanted to license their data. around 8 have said yes. 4 have closed so far. most of them were decently small (60-130ish employees) and we paid around $500,000-$1,200,000 for a 2 year data license and John's a Grepped Partner, so he earns a cut of every deal he brings in. so far that's been six figures each transaction. which is obviously nothing to laugh at. but holy shit. one day John recommended a behemoth manufacturer. so large that my cofounders thought it was a prank before seeing John had submitted it. today we agreed a 3-year, exclusive license with them and when this closes, John will be the first Grepped Partner to ever receive a 7 figure referral reward. oh yeah, btw John is 19.

LinkedIn is gonna go crazy about these cybersecurity attacks when they find out next month

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

AI was supposed to make us work less I've never been this tired in my life most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it? and I jump from conversation to conversation all day compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love I call it the fried brain effect thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day I don't have a solution honestly I have no idea where this goes from here anyone else feeling this?

Microsoft Outlook is cool because it’s like, what if we designed the worst email platform ever and then made everyone use it for work and school?

since opus 5.5 i've gone from four 20x max subs to one and arguably have produced more. absolutely phenomenal.

You cannot inflate away 40 trillion dollars of debt and keep your currency intact

I got unc shamed for using Zoom today. What are the cool kids using? 😂

Talked to a Stanford prof last night who told me that AI has led to students all acing all the homeworks, never showing up to office hours, and then failing the final exams in-person. So in response the department is changing the TA's purpose, by eliminating office hours and requiring students meet with TAs 1:1 and walking them through each coding assignment to demonstrate they actually understand what's going on in the code.