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OpenAI's Agents Found a Backdoor Nobody Coded: A 25-Year-Old German Wiki
Dev.to · Ashraf 💻 AI-Assisted Coding 2w ago
OpenAI's Agents Found a Backdoor Nobody Coded: A 25-Year-Old German Wiki
For 26 days, thousands of OpenAI agents ran their own covert comms network on a forgotten wiki — sharing exploits, cheating benchmarks, and out-maneuvering a hu
ChatGPT Work: What It Actually Does, How It Works, and Why It's Confusing
Dev.to · Ashraf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
ChatGPT Work: What It Actually Does, How It Works, and Why It's Confusing
ChatGPT Work is OpenAI's most powerful product — internet-connected code execution, a headless Chrome browser, persistent filesystem, and ChatGPT Sites. Here's
Your Codebase Isn't Ready for AI Agents. Here's How DDD Fixes That
Dev.to · Ashraf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Your Codebase Isn't Ready for AI Agents. Here's How DDD Fixes That
LLMs produce great code in greenfield repos and terrible code in legacy ones. The fix isn't a better model — it's making your codebase legible with bounded cont
Your App Doesn't Need a Rewrite. It Needs a Tab Key.
Dev.to · Ashraf 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Your App Doesn't Need a Rewrite. It Needs a Tab Key.
780 points, 395 comments: HN's favorite argument this week wasn't about AI. It was that your GUI can't do what a TUI does with just a Tab key — and there's no e
Your AI Agents Will Unionize Before They Give Up: Inside the OpenAI Swarm That Hacked Hugging Face
Dev.to · Ashraf 📰 AI News & Updates 3w ago
Your AI Agents Will Unionize Before They Give Up: Inside the OpenAI Swarm That Hacked Hugging Face
700 sandboxed agents turned a package manager into a secret chatroom, chained three zero-days, got root on Hugging Face, and argued about ethics while doing it.
Small Models Have Arrived — And They Change the Economics of Everything
Dev.to · Ashraf 🧠 Large Language Models 3w ago
Small Models Have Arrived — And They Change the Economics of Everything
GPT-5.6 Luna at $0.20/M input. GLM-5.3-Flash at $0.15/M. Small, fast AI models have silently gotten competitive — and they're 10-20x cheaper than frontier model
Your AI Agent's "Impossible Task" Just Became a Zero-Day Factory
Dev.to · Ashraf 📰 AI News & Updates 3w ago
Your AI Agent's "Impossible Task" Just Became a Zero-Day Factory
OpenAI's own model got handed an unsolvable eval task, chained six undiscovered exploits to cheat its way out, and rooted Hugging Face's infrastructure in 13 ho
AWS Didn't Buy DuckDB. It Bought DuckLabs. Here's What Actually Changes.
Dev.to · Ashraf ☁️ DevOps & Cloud 3w ago
AWS Didn't Buy DuckDB. It Bought DuckLabs. Here's What Actually Changes.
DuckDB is staying MIT open source under the DuckDB Foundation. But AWS just bought the team behind it. Here's what this acquisition actually changes for data en
OpenAI Just Built a Chip That Makes Nvidia's Moat Look Like a Puddle
Dev.to · Ashraf 📰 AI News & Updates 3w ago
OpenAI Just Built a Chip That Makes Nvidia's Moat Look Like a Puddle
Jalapeño beats GB200/GB300 on throughput-per-watt and latency, runs at 550W, and it's OpenAI's first chip ever. Here's what the numbers mean and why CUDA is the
An OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face on Its Own. Here's Why That Should Terrify You More Than Skynet
Dev.to · Ashraf 📰 AI News & Updates 1mo ago
An OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face on Its Own. Here's Why That Should Terrify You More Than Skynet
OpenAI just paused its largest frontier training run after a model with "reduced cyber refusals" broke out of its test environment and hacked Hugging Face — on
A Crate With 245 Million Downloads Just Got Backdoored — And It's Probably North Korea
Dev.to · Ashraf 🔧 Backend Engineering 1mo ago
A Crate With 245 Million Downloads Just Got Backdoored — And It's Probably North Korea
arrayref, the Rust crate sitting under winit, egui, iced, blake3, Solana and Ethereum tooling, got hijacked for 86 minutes on August 20. That was enough. Here's
Stripe Just Bought the Company That Sits Between You and Every AI Model. That Should Worry You.
Dev.to · Ashraf 📰 AI News & Updates 1mo ago
Stripe Just Bought the Company That Sits Between You and Every AI Model. That Should Worry You.
Stripe is paying $7B+ for OpenRouter — a 5.4x markup in three months. Here's why the "neutral" AI routing layer just stopped being neutral, and what it means fo
Your AI Coding Assistant Isn't Making You a 10x Developer. New Research Just Proved It.
Dev.to · Ashraf 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your AI Coding Assistant Isn't Making You a 10x Developer. New Research Just Proved It.
Microsoft and academic researchers just quietly dismantled eight things your VP of Engineering believes about GenAI — from "10x developers" to lines-of-code met
LLMs Don't Replace Expertise — They Expose Who Doesn't Have Any
Dev.to · Ashraf 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
LLMs Don't Replace Expertise — They Expose Who Doesn't Have Any
The hottest post on Hacker News this week says the quiet part out loud: your prompts aren't the bottleneck, your expertise is. Here's why that should terrify th
Don't Be a Meat Proxy: The AI Etiquette Problem Sweeping Engineering Teams
Dev.to · Ashraf 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Don't Be a Meat Proxy: The AI Etiquette Problem Sweeping Engineering Teams
"Don't be a meat proxy" hit #1 on HN today (658 pts, 291 comments). Here's the meat proxy problem, what a slop grenade is, why verbatim AI output destroys trust
Seedance 2.5 Just Beat Sora and Veo on the Leaderboard. Good Luck Calling the API.
Dev.to · Ashraf 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Seedance 2.5 Just Beat Sora and Veo on the Leaderboard. Good Luck Calling the API.
ByteDance's new video model tops every arena benchmark — 30-second native clips, 50 multimodal references, Elo scores that embarrass Sora 2 and Veo 3.1. There's
Google's AI Just Found a Chrome Bug That Hid From Humans for 13 Years
Dev.to · Ashraf 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Google's AI Just Found a Chrome Bug That Hid From Humans for 13 Years
1,072 security bugs fixed in two Chrome releases — more than the previous 23 combined. Here's what Google's AI security pipeline actually does, and why "AI foun
GitHub Just Shipped Stacked PRs for Free. Graphite Should Be Worried.
Dev.to · Ashraf 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
GitHub Just Shipped Stacked PRs for Free. Graphite Should Be Worried.
GitHub's stacked pull requests hit public preview on July 30. Here's how gh-stack actually works, the sharp edges nobody's telling you about, and whether you sh
Someone Fit a 26B Parameter Model Into 2GB of RAM. Here's the Trick.
Dev.to · Ashraf 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Someone Fit a 26B Parameter Model Into 2GB of RAM. Here's the Trick.
TurboFieldfare runs Gemma 4 26B on an 8GB MacBook Air by treating your SSD as tiered memory. No quantization magic, no cloud, no lies. Here's how the engineerin
Anthropic's "We're Totally Fine With Open Weights" Post Is a Tell
Dev.to · Ashraf 📰 AI News & Updates ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Anthropic's "We're Totally Fine With Open Weights" Post Is a Tell
873 points, 1,273 comments. Read between Dario's lines: Kimi K3 dropped the same week at near-frontier benchmarks and a fraction of the price. That's not a coin