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gbrindisi

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About gbrindisi

I do security and I write about it here:

https://cloudberry.engineering

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    I agree. They have quality data to build an effective AI pentest product that is good enough, and they already have a good offering to bundle that into and satisfy enterprise deman…

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    Comment #48808235

    I also notice the growing trend to have EM carry individual contributor duties, I thought it was mostly a consequence of using coding agents but perhaps it's not: the EM figure as …

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    Comment #48596096

    It's not just AI, these are the consequences of affiliate marketing. Just look at the crap that is YouTube nowadays.

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    Comment #48409431

    I like the pattern of making a dedicated cli/harness and just build a skill to teach coding agents to use it. At $work we built a thorough workflow to do security reviews, which is…

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    Comment #48049607

    I protest the modern web by trying to consume all content via RSS. The feed reader shall be my main window to the world, and I am sorry that it's not obvious to content creators th…

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    Comment #47776263

    This is pretty much a spec driven workflow. I do similar, but my favorite step is the first: /rubberduck to discuss the problem with the agent, who is instructed by the command to …

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    Comment #47547721

    are agents/ still relevant after we got skills? I am genuinely confused on why I would need custom system prompts for specific agents, what should I use them for?

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    Comment #47532505

    thanks for raising the alarm and sharing this, very insightful (also beautifully presented!)

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    Comment #47439907

    1. I dont have hard metrics at hand but with the latest Sonnet I'd say we reach consensus around 80% of the time, with Opus is almost always but we are not using it due to cost 2. …

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    I am doing something similar: I use openspec to create context and a sequential task list that I feed to ralph loops, so that i’m involved for the planning and the verification ste…

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    Comment #47418296

    I like openspec, it lets you tune the workflow to your liking and doesn’t get in the way. I started with all the standard spec flow and as I got more confident and opinionated I si…

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    Comment #47314233

    fifteen years ago I use to do mobile pentests for banks and when we could not find anything significant for the reports we could’ve always count on “lack of rooting detection” and …

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    Comment #47306497

    ah I also did my own sandbox and at least twice the agent inside tried really hard to go around the firewall, so I ended up intercepting calls to `connect` to return a message that…

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    Comment #47259022

    the most annoying thing with Google Workspace is that you need super admin privilege to properly audit the environment programmatically, I believe because of the cloud-identity api…

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    Comment #46409437

    I noticed that too and it’s kinda scary. Soon we will have the opposite of canceling, where the target will be deepfaked to say everything and its opposite to nullify their signal …

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    Comment #46159989

    The crowdstrike incident taught us that no one is going to review any dependency whatsoever.

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    Comment #45003885

    I wonder how far I could go with a barebone agent prompted to take advantage of this with Sonnet and the Bash tool only, so that it will always try to use the tool to only do `pyth…

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    Comment #44952367

    I can't use Google Meet on firefox/zen, I tried every setting combination I could find but the video call quality is still not comparable to chromium based browsers, so at work I r…

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    Comment #44916508

    We’ve kinda solved the detection of issues. what we still lack is understanding what’s important. I think an underappreciated use case for LLMs is to contextualize security issues.…