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New comment by bothlabs in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

bothlabs — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:17:58 +0000

I would expect, it still is only enforced in a semi-strict way.

I think what they want to achieve here is less "kill openclaw" or similar and more "keep our losses under control in general". And now they have a clear criteria to refer when they take action and a good bisection on whom to act on.

In case your usage is high they would block / take action. Because if you have your max subscription and not really losing them money, why should they push you (the monopoly incentive sounds wrong with the current market).

Show HN: Brute-force startup ideation with the Ralph Loop

bothlabs — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://fabianboth.dev/blog/idea-machine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058099

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New comment by bothlabs in "How Investigators Find the Source of a Fire [video]"

bothlabs — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:42:29 +0000

Crazy how odd fire can behave, learned suprisingly much in that vid. Exactly the kind of thing that educates you during lunch ;)

New comment by bothlabs in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

bothlabs — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:29:08 +0000

The Cerebras partnership is the most interesting part of this announcement to me. 1000+ tok/s changes how you interact with a coding model. At that speed the bottleneck shifts from waiting for the model to keeping up with it yourself.

Curious how the capability tradeoff plays out in practice though. SWE-Bench Pro scores are noticeably lower than full 5.3-Codex. For quick edits and rapid prototyping that's probably fine, but I wonder where the line is where you'd rather wait 10x longer for a correct answer than get a wrong one instantly.

Also "the model was instrumental in creating itself" is doing a lot of heavy lifting as a sentence. Would love to see more details on what that actually looked like in practice beyond marketing copy.

New comment by bothlabs in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

bothlabs — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:34:57 +0000

Having worked with ML-based sensing for years, what stands out here isn't the accuracy (near 100%), it's the simplicity. No specialized hardware, no cameras, no cooperation from the target needed. Just passive observation of unencrypted beamforming feedback that every modern router already broadcasts.

The window to embed privacy protections into the IEEE 802.11bf standard is closing. Once this is ratified without safeguards, retrofitting privacy will be much harder.

New comment by bothlabs in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

bothlabs — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:15:15 +0000

Ok very cool!

I already had built a hook with desktop notification and window highlighting myself. But I have to admit, making it fun like this beats it by a lot.

New comment by bothlabs in "Last year, all my non-programmer friends built apps"

bothlabs — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:21:45 +0000

This matches what I see from the other side. I'm a solo founder with 10 years in AI startups and my workflow is about 80% AI generated code. It works because I know what's wrong when the AI generates something subtly broken, and I know which corners not to cut.

The real insight the article misses is that AI coding tools actually widen the gap. The more senior you are, the more you accelerate. You're a better reviewer, you scope tasks correctly, you catch the nonsense faster. The friends in this post didn't fail because the tools are bad. They failed because reviewing code is harder than writing it, and you can't review what you don't understand.

New comment by bothlabs in "AI agents are easy to break"

bothlabs — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:18:49 +0000

This is a neat idea. At my last company (Octomind) we built AI agents for end-to-end testing and ran into the indirect injection problem constantly. Agents that browse or interact with web pages are especially vulnerable because you can't sanitize the entire internet.

The thing that surprised me most was how unreliable even basic guardrails were once you gave agents real tools. The gap between "works in a demo" and "works in production with adversarial input" is massive.

Curious how you handle the evaluation side. When someone claims a successful jailbreak, is that verified automatically or manually? Seems like auto-verification could itself be exploitable.