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5 minutes. That’s how long it took. A security researcher publishes an AWS access key on a public GitHub repository. They do it on purpose, as an experiment. Five minutes later, someone was already using it to mine cryptocurrency. Five. Minutes. There are bots scanning GitHub 24/7 looking for exactly that: exposed credentials. And they’re fast. Much faster than you realizing you screwed up. The numbers are scary According to GitHub, 39 million secrets were leaked in public repositories in 2024. A 67% increase from the previous year. ...

Kimi K2 will have to wait Yesterday I wanted to download the latest Moonshot model, Kimi K2 Instruct. A pretty promising model that I’d been wanting to test for days. I went to make some space, checked the disk, and found this: Disk: 927GB Used: 644GB Free: 283GB Hmm. 283GB free isn’t bad, but what the hell is taking up 644GB? I keep my Mac pretty clean, don’t store movies locally, and use the cloud for almost everything. ...

Two Predictions About You I’m going to go out on a limb with two predictions: Your professional success is largely due to an algorithm you master without knowing it. You’re worried that your kids apparently don’t use it. The first one is correct. The second… well, it might not be the problem you think it is. The algorithms are called Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS). Even if they don’t ring a bell, I guarantee they’re old friends. Your brain has been using them for millions of years. ...

A 100-Megabyte Binary for a CLI Anthropic just announced that Claude Code is now available as a native build. Translation: a binary executable you can install with a curl command that doesn’t need Node.js. Sounds good, right? One command, no dependencies, background auto-updates. Any CLI tool’s dream. But there’s a catch: the binary weighs 100MB. To put this in perspective, the git binary weighs about 3MB. curl is less than 1MB. Even Go, which has a reputation for generating fat binaries, rarely exceeds 15-20MB. ...

The Layoff He Didn’t See Coming A 38-year-old senior developer. Eight years at the company. Clean code, best practices, zero production incidents. In the latest productivity review, his output was 40% lower than colleagues with half his experience. The difference: they were using Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code. He kept writing every line by hand, convinced that “AI tools generate mediocre code.” They didn’t fire him for writing bad code. They fired him for writing good code too slowly. ...

A space lobster on your computer Imagine an Austrian developer creates a personal AI assistant, names it after a space lobster, and decides to open-source it. Within 24 hours it has 9,000 GitHub stars. Within 48 hours, 17,000. It also has 300+ open issues, several of them critical security vulnerabilities, and someone has created an unofficial cryptocurrency with its name. Welcome to Clawdbot. What exactly is this? Clawdbot is an open source AI assistant that runs locally on your machine. The difference from other assistants: it doesn’t just answer questions, it does things. ...

The 10 GB surprise You install Claude Desktop on your Mac. Everything’s fine, the app is lightweight. But one day you check your disk and discover this: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/vm_bundles/claudevm.bundle 10.8 GB. Excuse me? Ten gigs for a chatbot? What’s in there, the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy? Nope. It’s Ubuntu. The Claude product trinity Before I explain the what, let me explain the why. Anthropic has three ways to give you access to Claude: ...

The crime scene Zaragoza, Hotel Pilar Plaza café. A latte, views of the basilica, and yours truly with a shiny new MacBook Air M3 ready to work a couple hours with Claude Code before a meeting. Two hours later: battery at 15%. Red alert. Panic. But how? I was just in a terminal writing code. No video, no Zoom, nothing that would justify this kind of consumption. I open Activity Monitor, Energy tab, and there’s the culprit: Ghostty, with an accumulated consumption of 3,600 over the last 12 hours. For context, Brave Browser consumed 125. Zoom with video, 99. Claude (desktop app), 46. ...

The Memory Problem Claude Code has a problem: it forgets everything. You close the session, open another one, and it’s like talking to someone who doesn’t know you. You can load context with CLAUDE.md, sure, but what about half-finished tasks? Bugs you found but didn’t fix? The plan you had for tomorrow? There are three complementary solutions: Linear (or your product tool), Beads (git-backed plugin), and Tasks (integrated in Claude Code). Each one for a different time horizon. ...

The Infinite Context Problem Imagine you ask Claude to investigate how authentication works in your project. It starts reading files. Lots of files. Suddenly you have 50,000 tokens of context filled with code you only needed to consult, not remember. Now every response is slower. And more expensive. And when you want to do something else, all that context is still there, taking up mental space. The solution: subagents. You launch a specialized agent that does the dirty work in its own isolated context, returns a summary, and disappears. Your main conversation stays clean. ...