A LinkedIn recruiter pitched me a remote "Software Engineer at a DEX" project this week. Reasonable comp range, tech stack squarely in my wheelhouse. After a couple of friendly exchanges, she asked me to "review the codebase before the technical interview" and sent me a GitHub repo link plus a Calendly invite for the call. The repo was malware. It didn't get me, but it's something developers shoul
Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and more expensive because criminals are still getting paid. Despite growing awareness, the economics of ransomware still favour attackers. Only 17% of UK organisations hit by ransomware chose to pay, but even among those who do pay, outcomes remain unreliable. According to UK‑wide data, oranisations are now three times more likely to recover from backups
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The 3 AM Nightmare Last week, I let an AI agent run loose on my production server. It was fine — until 3 AM. To interact with the agent, a user must first authenticate across Gmail, a support desk, and a payment platform — all before the agent takes its first action. Permission denied. Permission denied. Permission denied. Three different connectors. Three different auth systems. One very tired
Background A nasty surprise Last summer while trying to deliver a feature for one of our customers, I encountered a nasty situation. The software we were developing, depended on a production grade license of Gurobi. People were on vacations except of my team and some unrelated staff, so developing the feature was in principle blocked. As I learnt due to some other situations, research
TL;DR: I built ChessDada — a free multiplayer chess platform inspired by old Yahoo Chess. No signup, no download, just instant browser-based chess. Built with Node.js, Socket.IO, and chess.js. Modern chess sites are bloated. Chess.com forces you through signup. Lichess defaults to account creation. The "5-second click and play" experience that made Yahoo Chess legendary in the 2000s is essentially
Technical debt and AI: is it gone? Lorenzo Battilocchi May 4 #ai #programming #management #technology 5 reactions Add Comment 3 min read
The pitch for full agentic coding sounds clean: you write specs, agents write code, you review and steer. The human stays "in the loop" as the expert orchestrator. But buried in Anthropic's own research on how AI is transforming work at Anthropic is a sentence that should give every engineer pause: "Effectively using Claude requires supervision, and supervising Claude requires the very coding skil