Episode 565: Field Engineering is the YOLO team
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This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?
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Runner-up Titles
- Product Management Slot Machine
- We poisoned our own data
- As the resident hater of SDT
- I’m optimistic on this one
- I’ll check back when you call it Siri
- AI SEO
- The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts
Rundown
- Big Bets, Past, Present and Future
- Python and OpenAI
- Security
- TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
- Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign
- KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack
- Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack
- Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)
- Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI
- AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact
- Claude defaults
Relevant to your Interests
- Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X
- Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
- Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
- Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May
- What Is the PARK Stack?
- Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
- Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
- FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
- Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
- Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
- Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today
- Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US
- Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
- Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
- Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
- Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
- Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude
Conferences
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