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After 5 years in v0, it's finally happening.. Dagger 1.0 is in beta and we need your help testing it.
If you've tried Dagger before, a lot has changed... We've been cooking.
Announcing Dagger 1.0 beta.
Replace Jenkins and GitHub Actions with CI that matches the speed and scale of coding agents without wasting compute or tokens.
Featuring: test-native CI, dev shells, local and remote execution, official modules, and more.
dagger.io/blog/dagger-10-bet…
Alexis Richardson retweeted
so I'm passionate about AI safety
but
in a world in which our erstwhile allies are aligning themselves with our enemies perhaps the safest course of action is to make sure we don't fall behind
countries without strong AI will become effective colonies of those with powerful AIs, at the least they will be vulnerable to massive cyber attack (I wonder who knew about the PHP vulnerability and fire how long)
open source is a way to catch up. it makes sense for everyone but the leader
Alexis Richardson retweeted
"If you can use math to do something, you should" - Philip Wadler
With all the new interest in formal verification / related program validation methods, every developer should go watch these:
Propositions as Types by Philip Wadler:
youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZ…
Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain by @runarorama
youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSz…
Alexis Richardson retweeted
New on our Frontier Red Team blog: using Claude to formally verify software at large scale.
Formal verification can prove that code is free of certain bugs, but historically it has only been feasible for small codebases (or required a lot of expert time).
With AI models, however, this is beginning to change. In collaboration with @theoremlabs, we used Claude to prove security properties in over one hundred real-world open-source libraries over the span of a few weeks.
Read our research in full here: anthropic.com/research/forma…
Alexis Richardson retweeted
Small announcement: ✅ formal-git
As an experiment, over the last 2 months we've modelled ~30% of Git in Lean 4, making heavy use of coding agents, and proved >8000 theorems of varying usefulness about the implementation.
In the process of doing this we've uncovered >100 potential defects in Git v2.55, at least two of which may constitute security vulnerabilities. We've also built a DRT (differential random testing) harness and the biggest corpus of relevant pinned differential test cases for Git implementations with >10k unique tests at the moment.
We've used the test cases to test our own small internal implementation of Git in TypeScript. The next step will be to differentially test all notable public Git implementations against this corpus of tests to help improve their correctness and security 🫡 We'll be reaching out to library maintainers in due course.
If you have a Git implementation you'd like us to help you test, please reach out and let me know. We'll open-source all this eventually, after potential security issues that were uncovered are responsibly disclosed and fixed.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
My experience partying all night at Berghain in Berlin made me think of how we're lacking this experience in the San Francisco tech scene. We can literally become the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth if we had our version of Berghain, but better. So let's build it. The best aspect of Berhain is how they select who gets in. The club has a vibe and atmosphere, and if you aren't wearing the right clothes or have the right demeanor, you don't get in. That's how you cultivate a tasteful crowd. We can improve on this by only letting in high agency, talented operators in the tech scene who can still pull off dope outfits, so no geeks. SF is in dire need of late night venues, and Berghain goes until 8am. That's a little too crazy for high net worth operators who are changing the world so we could do something like 2am. Berghain also is kinda dark and in a weird building so we'd put the club in a SoMa corporate office that we convert to speakeasy or barcade vibe. Maybe add a quiet area for people to bring their laptops and work? I honestly feel like we're improving on the Berghain form here, especially by swapping out the crowd of weird partiers in inappropriate clothes (or lack there of) with insanely cracked founders and engineers. I'm super stoked about this idea, SF tech could really run the dopest parties on the planet.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
Want to learn more about Swamp Club?!
Come join me and @nickstinemates as I learn how to build my automations on the latest and greatest tool.
SWAMPING TIME
youtube.com/watch?v=IQnJz-y_…
Alexis Richardson retweeted
OK, I've had a little play with this 40B MoE Flint model, here are my findings.
It's a good model but at 40B it needs to be compared to models a similar size and the Qwen3.6-35B MoE and Qwen3.8-27B are both smaller so make ideal candidates.
See thread below...
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine.
• Best-in-class fast local coding
• Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark
• Built from scratch in under 4 months
Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
wow this is bad!
ENTIRETY of PingCap database used by linkedin, flipkart, airbnb etc. has been copied and stolen due to customer credentials being stored directly in support tickets (LOL)
Attackers ran exfiltration directly on their cloud (LOL) pipeline ran for 22 days, exfiltrating data every 6 hours and NO ONE noticed. Worse, PingCap denies all of it.
Average SRE salary is $300,000 at PingCap btw
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The situation is getting worse every hour. AI agents are entering U.S. bank accounts, and banks are scrambling to shut them out. Axios reports that some appear to attempt actions beyond users instructions, raising fears over who is really in control.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Alexis Richardson retweeted
I should have added this to my review and thread on the 40B Flint model from Recursive (posted less than an hour ago). It compares how similar models in the same space do with coding in different programming languages.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
There's a really cool science fiction novel - Blindsight by Peter Watts - where aliens (much creepier and more creative than Project Hail Mary's aliens) manipulate humans by moving only in intervals where humans can't consciously perceive them
Blindsight deserves so much visibility for its creativity and its biological plausibility
seems like an overstated claim but very interesting experiment: if i understand correctly, you can see neurons rapidly switch back and forth between representations in time (rather than locality/averaging, as people assumed) of the 'seen' object and an unconcious one, like the optical illusion you're choosing to look at vs the other side of the illusion which you're not. this has some interpretation, which they seem to overstate, of some temporal nature or back-and-forth of conciousness
Alexis Richardson retweeted
Should Europe leave frontier AI to the Americans and the Chinese?
The idea has gained ground in Europe. It is a fundamental mistake.
Build or surrender: for now, the choice is still ours.
Full article below.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
Many people just starting out on Lean formalization have enjoyed playing the Natural Numbers Game. Now Autumn Mapes has produced Visual Lean, isomorphic to the original but playable in a lovely intuitive way with clicking and dragging rather than typing.
leangame.autumnofautumn.com/
Alexis Richardson retweeted
🤩 The Brexit debate is moving very fast now.
Bernd Lange, @berndlange chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee and a veteran of the Brexit negotiations, says Britain could move quickly into a *Switzerland plus* relationship with the EU.
In other words, the choice is not simply: Hard Brexit forever or wait years for full re-entry.
There are routes back towards deep economic integration much faster than that.
And once again, the message from Europe is not stay away.
It is: if Britain wants to come closer, the door is open.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
This is stupidly good, a MAJOR upgrade!
Very fast, significantly larger kv-pool, and up to 1m context. (@MiaAI_lab's TensorFold recipe is 20% faster).
Cognisant ability is looking excellent.
I've tested 400k context with 56 tok/s (YaRN x2) and go up to 1m tonight.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
We cannot physically serve a trillion agents with existing infrastructure.
The world doesn't have enough CPUs, GPUs, power, or space.
So we have two options:
1/ compress the workloads in software so agents do more with less
2/ or get more out of the hardware itself.
Probably both. And faster than anyone’s current roadmap assumes.
Alexis Richardson retweeted
We now have state-of-the-art pre-trained base models in the 3T-parameter weight class, built entirely in-house at MAI.
Post-training results coming soon -- stay tuned!
Lots of details in our technical blog post.
microsoft.ai/news/frontier-p…
Alexis Richardson retweeted
Important complexity consequence of new claimed quasireimann (hexagonmath.org/2610.00200v1): Valiant's conjecture VP != VNP over the complex numbers follows from the boolean-complexity lower bound NP not in P/poly. Burgisser proved this under GRH. (🧵1/4)





























