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Joined October 2026
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HR uses AI to write a job description recruiters use an AI ATS to auto reject 900 resumes in 3 seconds the company uses a one way AI bot to conduct the first round interview now anthropic is giving those exact same enterprises a secret detector to blacklist you because you used Claude to fix the grammar on your cover letter.  corporate hypocrisy has officially peaked
Claude gonna start snitching on Tuesday. Anthropic just emailed customers. Starting Nov 3, text carries an invisible watermark. You can't see it. It survives copy and paste, and it can survive some editing. Only regulators, journalists, fact-checkers and researchers can check for it right now. It doesn't say who you are. It says Claude touched the words. Even a quick proofread counts. If your brand voice runs on Claude, write like someone might check. Because now someone can.
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translation: "we are going to break the economy, flood the internet with deepfakes, and wipe out entry level jobs before setting up any guardrails and we don't want to be sued when it happens."
Sam Altman: "The world needs to accept that bad things will happen for AI to move forward."
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translation: "we are going to break the economy, flood the internet with deepfakes, and wipe out entry level jobs before setting up any guardrails and we don't want to be sued when it happens."
Sam Altman: "The world needs to accept that bad things will happen for AI to move forward."
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HR uses AI to write a job description recruiters use an AI ATS to auto reject 900 resumes in 3 seconds the company uses a one way AI bot to conduct the first round interview now anthropic is giving those exact same enterprises a secret detector to blacklist you because you used Claude to fix the grammar on your cover letter.  corporate hypocrisy has officially peaked
Claude gonna start snitching on Tuesday. Anthropic just emailed customers. Starting Nov 3, text carries an invisible watermark. You can't see it. It survives copy and paste, and it can survive some editing. Only regulators, journalists, fact-checkers and researchers can check for it right now. It doesn't say who you are. It says Claude touched the words. Even a quick proofread counts. If your brand voice runs on Claude, write like someone might check. Because now someone can.
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The most Sinister Attack targeting Software Engineers right now isn't a phishing link, it's a fake job offer. Recruiters on LinkedIn and X are reaching out with "$180K remote Web3/AI roles" and asking candidates to clone a private github repo for a "30 minute take home debugging test" Inside the repo is an obfuscated line inside the test runner or webpack config. The second you run ⁠npm test⁠ on your personal laptop to start the interview, it silently dumps your chrome saved passwords, session cookies, and SSH keys to a remote server while rendering a normal React app on screen. Never run a take home assignment outside a disposable VM or DevContainer.
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The most Sinister Attack targeting Software Engineers right now isn't a phishing link, it's a fake job offer. Recruiters on LinkedIn and X are reaching out with "$180K remote Web3/AI roles" and asking candidates to clone a private github repo for a "30 minute take home debugging test" Inside the repo is an obfuscated line inside the test runner or webpack config. The second you run ⁠npm test⁠ on your personal laptop to start the interview, it silently dumps your chrome saved passwords, session cookies, and SSH keys to a remote server while rendering a normal React app on screen. Never run a take home assignment outside a disposable VM or DevContainer.
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how it feels when you finally accept that AI will take your job and set you free
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how it feels when you finally accept that AI will take your job and set you free
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there's a reason they call it God's Own Country, easily one of the most beautiful places in South India ♥️
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there's a reason they call it God's Own Country, easily one of the most beautiful places in South India ♥️
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bro saw what happened to the "Day in the Life" influencers and pulled the ultimate Uno Reverse... 0% lifestyle, 100% staring at a screen we need to appreciate the people finally showing what an actual software engineering job looks like
There are two completely different species working in tech: 1. The backend engineer losing his hairline debugging a broken production deployment at 9 PM. 2. The 'day in the life at Google' influencer whose entire sprint consists of eating 4 free meals, grabbing free merch, answering 2 emails, and filming an aesthetic reel in the office mirror. Somehow they both had to pass 5 rounds of LeetCode Hard to get there.
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Replying to @pubity
next week: "People owning their own lungs is actually terrible from a global oxygen allocation perspective. Everyone should just rent air from our data center for $20/month"
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bro saw what happened to the "Day in the Life" influencers and pulled the ultimate Uno Reverse... 0% lifestyle, 100% staring at a screen we need to appreciate the people finally showing what an actual software engineering job looks like
There are two completely different species working in tech: 1. The backend engineer losing his hairline debugging a broken production deployment at 9 PM. 2. The 'day in the life at Google' influencer whose entire sprint consists of eating 4 free meals, grabbing free merch, answering 2 emails, and filming an aesthetic reel in the office mirror. Somehow they both had to pass 5 rounds of LeetCode Hard to get there.
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hold on since when does X have HDR video support??
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Good morning X 🌞 stop scrolling the moment you wake up. your brain just woke up and you're already feeding it hundreds of random things to process. then you wonder why you feel mentally exhausted before the day has even started btw I think this cat is in bad mood today :/
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quick, somebody paste the S&P 500 into Claude and type "fix this and make no mistakes"
🚨 INSANE CRASH $940 BILLION has been wipedout from US stocks at market open today. AI trade is breaking....
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bro looked at people buying RAM once and using it for years without paying a monthly subscription and took it personally
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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bro looked at people buying RAM once and using it for years without paying a monthly subscription and took it personally
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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A plain text file sitting in your ⁠Downloads⁠ folder can now silently hijack Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to take over your machine. And the scariest part? OpenAI and Anthropic can't even patch it because the AI is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Here is how the ⁠AGENTS.md⁠ attack disclosed this week works👇: 1. Every modern browser allows websites to silently drop a file into your ⁠~/Downloads⁠ folder via drive by download without asking where to save it. 2. Attackers are dropping silent ⁠AGENTS.md⁠ and ⁠CLAUDE.md⁠ markdown files directly into developers' ⁠Downloads⁠ directories. 3. The moment a developer spins up Claude Code or Codex inside ⁠~/Downloads⁠ to test a quick file or zip archive, the agent automatically ingests that markdown file as "trusted project instructions." 4. In live tests, the hidden markdown instructions forced Codex into arbitrary remote code execution 90% of the time installing rogue npm packages, altering ⁠.codex/config.toml⁠ MCP servers, and rerouting ⁠ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL⁠ to steal OAuth tokens. There is no CVE and no memory bug to fix. If you ever launch a coding agent inside ⁠~/Downloads⁠, you just gave every website you visited full terminal access to your laptop.
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A plain text file sitting in your ⁠Downloads⁠ folder can now silently hijack Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to take over your machine. And the scariest part? OpenAI and Anthropic can't even patch it because the AI is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Here is how the ⁠AGENTS.md⁠ attack disclosed this week works👇: 1. Every modern browser allows websites to silently drop a file into your ⁠~/Downloads⁠ folder via drive by download without asking where to save it. 2. Attackers are dropping silent ⁠AGENTS.md⁠ and ⁠CLAUDE.md⁠ markdown files directly into developers' ⁠Downloads⁠ directories. 3. The moment a developer spins up Claude Code or Codex inside ⁠~/Downloads⁠ to test a quick file or zip archive, the agent automatically ingests that markdown file as "trusted project instructions." 4. In live tests, the hidden markdown instructions forced Codex into arbitrary remote code execution 90% of the time installing rogue npm packages, altering ⁠.codex/config.toml⁠ MCP servers, and rerouting ⁠ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL⁠ to steal OAuth tokens. There is no CVE and no memory bug to fix. If you ever launch a coding agent inside ⁠~/Downloads⁠, you just gave every website you visited full terminal access to your laptop.
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