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JasperNoboxdev

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About JasperNoboxdev

Building developer tools at No Box Dev. Currently focused on secrets management for macOS — keeping API keys out of .env files and AI agent context windows.

Previously built products across healthcare, education, and accessibility.

noxkey.ai | noboxdev.com

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    Been going back and forth on this with open source tools I've built. The training data argument is valid, but honestly the more immediate version of the same problem is that someon…

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    Comment #47505483

    Same energy here. I was sitting on 50+ .env files across various projects with plaintext API keys and it always bothered me but never enough to actually fix it. AI dropped the effo…

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    Comment #47491539

    What I find interesting is that AI is surprisingly bad at writing agentic flows. We're setting up a lightweight system where the core logic lives in markdown files agent identity, …

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    Comment #47491319

    Curious, why remove Touch ID? Been moving everything into it seems like a really good mix of convenience + security (especially if the alternative is copying your key into AI :) )

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    Comment #47457197

    We've been working on exactly this problem from the credential layer side. The root issue isn't that frameworks lack auth features — it's that .env files are the path of least resi…

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    Comment #47456529

    Same here!! 39, working through a backlog of side projects that never got built before. The velocity is insanely fun compared to even two years ago. Best part has been building stu…

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    Comment #47447899

    We've tried a bunch of approaches, always comes down to the same few things: - Built internal tooling to keep keys out of AI chats and anywhere they could leak. The moment a raw ke…