Staff Software Engineer - Just a ghost in the machine 👻 . 🧑🚀 High Agency Individual.
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I have to post it again because I’m so excited about it. I was featured in a video with @cursor_ai and I just can’t stop smiling about it.
cursor.com/blog/box
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when the cybersecurity team finds out there are actual vulnerabilities and they have to do their jobs instead of trying to trick someone into clicking a phishing email
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Here's a new AI app stack you can dive into this week.
File systems coupled with LLMs become a powerful backend for apps.
@Box ran a hackathon with @awscloud and challenged hackers to explore this new concept.
I came out of this hackathon inspired and fired up for whats possible with this new stack.
Read about it here 👇
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The countdown to BoxWorks is on, and we can’t wait to bring this community together again.
Join the brightest minds in Content + AI November 5–6 in San Francisco for keynotes, hands-on demos, and partner solutions in the AI innovation showcase. Connect with fellow builders and explore how business content can power your next AI workflow.
Bring your questions, and leave with ideas to put to work.
Register: boxworks.box.com/series/boxw…
This is a fantastic take and supports the question “What if everything goes right?”
The biggest misread of anyone predicting the end of software engineering was imagining that the world only needed a certain amount of software, and bringing automation to the field would reduce the need for labor.
Exactly the opposite is happening where essentially most things are actually turning into software. Because agents can use tools, work with computers, write software on the fly, and process data like humans (but far faster), we can now throw “software” at problems that never could reasonably be digitized before.
What that leads to is the role of engineering taking on greater importance in the economy, because we can now engineer far more systems and processes than were possible before.
If you’re a bank trying to do new forms of trading, engineers are often your first bet. If you are in life sciences, you expect more and more research and lab work to be engineering centric. If you’re in manufacturing, you’re trying to automate more of the supply chain, all that is engineering. More and more work is shaped like software problems.
Yes we’re not going to be coding manually in the future. But almost everything will be code, which means those that understand it are in a fantastic position.
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They did it. They made a Muse open weights model, which is a huge step forward for OSS in the US.
This is going to further accelerate AI diffusion because enterprises will be able to mix and match frontier performance for orchestration and high end tasks, while being able to have low cost and tailored post trained models for repeatable workflows.
Overall this dramatically increases token consumption and workloads across the stack. Great to see Meta doing this.
Headed to Boston for Head of the Charles regatta and doing some sight seeing. I've always wanted to visit Boston and finally getting the chance.
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Fortnite is coming to Linux!!
We are already working with the folks at @EpicGames to ensure that @Omarchy is ready on day one with all the security requirements.
Amazing what's possible when you nag @TimSweeneyEpic for years 😂
store.epicgames.com/news/epi…
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Cyber is going to be one of the biggest spaces for AI agents in the future.
Obviously the risks of software exploits and the attack surface area increases 100 fold due to the ability for agents to work through any crack to find what they’re looking for.
But this goes the other way as well. The ability to have agent swarms review every line of code, test any number of permutations of exploits, and research any incident faster than humans as they happen, will be a huge boost in how we secure systems in the future.
Cyber has always been a category where it’s hard to keep up with (and triage) all the incoming risks, alerts, and changes in the enterprise and across all system. You can never hire enough people or work through the backlog of all known risks. Agents actually give you a chance finally to have far better coverage of this.
This is going to be a huge opportunity as well because we’ll see plays at the labs, data providers, the layer of the network and firewall, identity, devices and endpoints, SDLC, and even how we protect our data in the enterprise. Lots of interesting dimensions to cyber at the moment.
6 days and $40,000 of compute with GPT-5.6 Sol to find a critical vulnerability in Chrome, claiming Google’s first full-chain reward in 2026 for a vulnerability that would affect an estimated 1 billion users.
Highlights the opportunity for defenders to utilize these tools to secure their software to unprecedented levels:
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Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS
Its how the desktop should have always been.
Download at
TrellisWM.app
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What a crazy time in AI with Meta now jumping fully into the frontier. Now that there are multiple players pushing the state of the art, this is going to lead to a further acceleration of advances, as well as the lowering cost of tokens for even the highest levels of capability.
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NEW: I sat down w/ Perplexity Founder & CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) on why AI-native SMBs could drive the next American millionaire economic boom.
@perplexity_ai, valued at ~$20B with ~$2B in reported funding, $750M in annualized revenue as of August, seeing 5x YoY revenue growth as it expands from search into autonomous agents.
One example Aravind shared is a single-person company generating $3M in annual revenue while spending over $1M a year on Perplexity Computer.
His thesis is that AI could fundamentally change the economics of building a business. Smaller teams, less capital, higher productivity, & entirely new business models.
At the infrastructure layer, Aravind sees a shift toward local & hybrid inference, with AI agents operating across personal devices and the cloud. As context windows expand and workloads become more personalized, local compute becomes increasingly cost-competitive, while offering greater privacy, control & data sovereignty.
We cover:
› Why SMBs could become a major driver of US GDP growth
› The shift from AI models to agents & recursive economics
› Why Perplexity is betting on your Mac instead of building data centers
› NVIDIA, Apple Silicon, local inference & sovereign AI
› Why writing code is no longer the bottleneck, but problem-solving is
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Aravind Srinivas, Co-founder & CEO of Perplexity
(01:30) Why Perplexity's brand is built on curiosity
(04:47) Every great invention starts with one question
(08:18) How to build a $1T company in America alone
(12:36) The next big companies will be tiny
(13:45) Is the American dream still alive?
(16:28) Stop blaming users for bad prompts
(22:55) How Perplexity quietly grew 5x
(26:51) The solopreneur spending $1M a year on Perplexity
(28:28) "We don't have competitors, we have contributors"
(29:20) The data center is coming to your laptop
(34:32) Orchestrating up with NVIDIA, down with Apple
(36:11) What happens when your AI agent knows everything
(39:17) Why Perplexity is skipping the data center race
(41:25) Stop asking AI to write code, ask it to think
(45:47) Perplexity’s answer to AI security
(48:27) The Hugging Face incident & multi-agent threats
(50:45) Turning everyone into a scientist
(53:31) Why Perplexity isn’t chasing a billion users