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pipejosh

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About pipejosh

Builder. I run a plumbing company and made Pipelock (https://github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelock) after realizing nothing stopped AI coding agents from leaking my API keys.

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    $2 million a year to run 244,000 searches that advanced 361 cases... That's about $5,500 per useful search. Meanwhile every car that drove past one of those cameras got logged, tim…

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    I settled on a similar workflow but across two agents instead of one session. One agent writes task specs. The other implements them. Handoff files bridge the gap. The spec IS the …

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    Tried self-hosting with Mattermost to get around Slacks 90 day free tier history but my team didn't care for it much. Ended up back on Slack's free tier. This may solve that issue …

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    Agreed. The non-determinism makes traditional testing basically useless here. You can't write a test suite for "the agent decided to do something unexpected this time." Logging and…

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    The automated audit only covers static analysis. When the agent actually runs, hitting MCP servers, making HTTP calls, getting responses back, that's where the real problems show u…

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    The maintenance burden is real but I think security is the bigger gap. People vibing out code with AI aren't thinking about input validation or dependency vulnerabilities. They bui…

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