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New comment by sunir in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

sunir — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:50 +0000

Exactly. A safe bet vs a great bet.

New comment by sunir in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

sunir — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:33:16 +0000

4 McDonalds. That’s a better way of measuring it.

New comment by sunir in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

sunir — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:58:49 +0000

Moore's Law.

We've had RAM shocks before. We nerds can't control the Wall Street or Virginians who like to break the world every so often for the lulz. However, a wobble on the curve doesn't change the curve's destination.

New comment by sunir in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

sunir — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:43:25 +0000

The hardware will change. We know that.

New comment by sunir in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

sunir — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:42:22 +0000

Computers get better and cheaper. That’s not a forever problem.

New comment by sunir in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

sunir — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:17:36 +0000

I think the mountain of things I don’t understand was already huge. It doesn’t stop me from getting a grip over the things I need to be responsible for and using tools to contain complexity irrelevant to me. Like many scientists have a stats person.

The risk is that civilization is over its skis because humans are lazy. Humans are always lazy. In science there’s a limit to bs because dependent works fail. In economics there’s a crash. In physics stuff breaks. Then there is a correction.

New comment by sunir in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

sunir — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:25:08 +0000

I am really enjoying this renaissance in CLI world applications. There's so much possible.

I'm working on a related challenge which is mounting a virtual filesystem with FUSE that mirrors my Mac's actual filesystem (over a subtree like ~/source), so I can constrain the agents within that filesystem, and block destructive changes outside their repo.

I have it so every repo has its own long-lived agent. They do get excited and start changing other repos, which messes up memory.

I didn't want to create a system user per repo because that's obnoxious, so I created a single claude system user, and I am using the virtual file system to manage permissions. My gmail repo's agent can for instance change the gmail repo and the google_auth repo, but it can't change the rag repo.

Edit: I'm publishing it here. It's still under development. https://github.com/sunir/bashguard

New comment by sunir in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

sunir — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:50:40 +0000

It doesn't force you go through risk modelling because by now most SOC2 platforms have templates you just fill in the blanks and sign off. Conversely, the auditors are paid by the company, so their incentive is to pass the audit so the client can get what it wants.

Because there's no adversarial pressure as a check and balance to the security, and AICPA is clearly just happy to take the fees, it's a hollow shirt. It's like this scene from The Big Short. https://youtu.be/mwdo17GT6sg?si=Hzada9JcdIPfdyFN&t=140

As usual, it's only people that care that force positive change. The companies that want good security will have good security. Customers who want good security will demand good security.

New comment by sunir in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

sunir — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:53:11 +0000

I am! I’ll reach out in another channel to connect.

New comment by sunir in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

sunir — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:04:40 +0000

It’s not surprising. There has been quite a bit of industrial research in how to manage mere apes to be deterministic with huge software control systems, and they are an unruly bunch I assure you.

New comment by sunir in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

sunir — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:08:32 +0000

You’re just a bag of meat. That is why it’s just math is an unsatisfying argument.

It’s not even an interesting question. Sentience has no definition. It’s meaningless.

People have needs that are being met. That is something we can meaningfully observe and talk about. Is the super stimulus beneficial or harmful? We can measure that.

New comment by sunir in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:00:23 +0000

Technodeterminism is a common feeling in paradigm shifting moments. Don’t forget who is at the helm of the change.

New comment by sunir in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:19:22 +0000

It’s called a library. It’s free. Plus you get to say microfiche which is fun. :)

New comment by sunir in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:15:10 +0000

It’s not insane. They are correct that is the point of civilization which carries information from generation to generation outside the oral tradition in a systematic organized reliable way.

New comment by sunir in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:14:02 +0000

Dubious. Ai psychosis is the opposite. It’s about being empowered to explore ideas much further but with a maladaptive tool designed to be an appeaser by reinforcement learning.

New comment by sunir in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:00:13 +0000

When was it not a cargo cult?

New comment by sunir in "Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:59:10 +0000

Qwen code has a free tier

Opencoder is bring your own model.

You get what you pay for so good luck.

New comment by sunir in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

sunir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:48:55 +0000

You’re assuming most people using Claude code are senior engineers.

New comment by sunir in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

sunir — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:16:07 +0000

I think you have the law of supply and demand backwards.

New comment by sunir in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

sunir — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:33:47 +0000

The fund is called customers. The independent regulator is called the AICPA. It really comes down to who is paying attention

SOC2 is as useful as a privacy policy at protecting your data. It’s all humans following human incentives.