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Areena_28

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About Areena_28

Cybersecurity professional with 10+ years of experience, focused on the unglamorous side of cybersecurity i.e. compliance, dark web exposure, and brand protection for companies that can't afford a full security team. Always interested in how small teams handle risk in practice.

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    The moat was never really the code....it was always the understanding that produced it. All those failed experiments and design iterations that led to the algorithm... that knowled…

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    Comment #47919461

    Yes, and the main change is i now weight specificity much more heavily. The things that still feel trustworthy are very specific details, opinions that could get someone in trouble…

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    Comment #47919443

    For computer vision and ML work specifically, RHEL doesn't give you much advantage over Ubuntu or even Fedora for personal use. Most ML tooling like PyTorch, CUDA drivers, Jupyter …

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    Comment #47845641

    damm true haha

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    Comment #47845638

    Judgment in ambiguous situations is the one thing that's held up consistently. AI is good at defined tasks, bad at knowing when the task definition itself is wrong. Also, deep doma…

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    Tell me an alternative of Claude for writing/strategy generation

    Since the past few days, Claude has reduced its daily free limit. I am guessing it is actually becoming a money-making company. What are your thoughts here?

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    Comment #47803399

    Thank you, someone pointed out this. Using claude has become a pain in my ass now. I used to use it for writing but now it has lost its creative thinking. In addition, its free pla…

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    Comment #47803380

    I’ve noticed this with model upgrades too: sometimes they improve the “thinking” but lose the tightness of the writing.

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    Comment #47776204

    Most of these tools aren’t defensible because of AI, they’re defensible because of workflow capture. The model is the easy part now, the hard part is owning the context, the data, …

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    Comment #47776172

    Building Gordon ( https://trygordon.ai/ ) because most companies “have security” but no idea what their actual risk is. We’re building a platform that helps you pass audits faster,…

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    Comment #47776119

    My perspective is different here. You were right about the VR thing, but the AI tools on which we are relying today will no longer be useful for us 2 years later. I'll give it a te…

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    Comment #47776082

    hahaha, you are so right!

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    Comment #47717530

    The disruption is 101% happening but it's mostly invisible from the outside. iI think its not new apps replacing old ones rather the same apps doing things that used to require 3x …

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    Comment #47716700

    Yeah, i noticed it too. Something feels off with the reasoning on complex multi-step tasks compared to a few months ago. hard to tell if it's actual regression or just expectations…

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    Comment #47716683

    I'll speak on the co-founder question, try out the the trial period approach. Give someone a 60-day paid project with a clear deliverable before any equity conversation. You learn …

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    Comment #47657476

    Impressive! FSI courses are genuinely good but the raw format makes them harder to stick with than they should be.

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    Comment #47657462

    Two things you can try: dispute it with your bank as an unauthorised hold if any of those payments were card transactions, and file a complaint with the DFSA if your business is in…

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    Comment #47612955

    The way we handle it is keeping a small set of fixed test cases that we never change. Like same inputs, same expected outputs. so when we tweak a prompt we run it against those fir…

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    Comment #47612937

    Never experienced BBS firsthand but from everything i've read about it, the thing that stands out most is how intentional the interactions were. you had to actually want to be ther…

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    Comment #47612850

    Honestly the leverage you have is the parts they can't vibe code. I mean DevOps, architecture decisions, anything that breaks quietly in production. i'd focus there and let them fi…

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    Comment #47583486

    Been using Aegis for a while now, the encrypted backup alone makes it worth it over Google Authenticator. losing access to everything because you switched phones once is enough to …

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    Comment #47583092

    Nearly missing a passport expiry is the kind of thing that happens to everyone at least once and nobody builds anything about it until it happens to them. good that you did somethi…