Braid

CTFs, Scrum, and Claude's Bedtime


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An Australian CTF top-tenner writes the obituary for the open competitive scene. Intercom and PFF both report doubling-and-then-some engineering throughput from agent-first workflows — using opposite playbooks. Supabase ships a skill after watching an agent silently bypass row-level security. A suitcase runs a 4B model fully offline at conversational latency. Julia Evans leaves Tailwind. And Claude keeps telling people to go to sleep.

  • "The CTF scene is dead" — Kabir, former TheHackersCrew player, on agents and the open format
  • Brian Scanlan (Intercom): doubling PR throughput, 17.6% auto-approved, SOC 2 compliant
  • Mike Spitz (PFF): the post-engineer engineering org, two engineers shipping 25x more deploys than ten
  • Pedro Rodrigues (Supabase): skills plus MCP, and the security-invoker flag agents skip without guidance
  • Sparky — a fully offline suitcase robot on a Jetson Orin NX with Gemma 4 E4B
  • Julia Evans: moving away from Tailwind and learning to structure CSS
  • Fortune: Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and Anthropic isn't sure why
  • @yishan: an LLM hallucinates the Napster 2000 story to someone who was there
  • @Kirsten3531: "LLMs can never be more than the average of their training data" — a 2024 take?
  • Armin Ronacher: running an agent with bash as the only tool, using the patch binary to make edits
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