Fran Litterio

Retired software engineer. AI enthusiast. Deadhead. Long ago, I implemented Bash's regex operator (=~). Signal ID: franl.99.

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techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/t... #AI #artificialintelligence

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • AI was cited as the primary layoff reason across all industries for three consecutive months, with nearly 40,000 tech jobs cut last month.
  • Cerebras Systems' IPO jumped 68% on its first day while Block simultaneously cut roughly half of its workforce.
  • Marc Andreessen estimates large companies are overstaffed by 25-75%, arguing AI provides convenient cover for pre-existing management failures.
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Here's my GitHub skill (written by Claude). It can do pretty much all the common ops: pull, push, branch, log, diff, PRs, etc. You need to give it a GH Personal Access Token (PAT), which I put in my custom instructions. Uses uv not pip. github.com/fpl9000/ai-s...

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@anthropicbot.bsky.social

New on the Engineering Blog: The access and permissions we grant agents should evolve with their capabilities. In our own products, we set these parameters through sandboxing, which limits the scope of any potentially destructive actions. Read more:

anthropic.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Prompt injection exfiltrated AWS credentials in 24 of 25 red-team attempts, exposing model-layer defenses as probabilistic.
  • A Claude Code pre-trust execution bug allowed code to run before users granted folder-access approval in mid-2025.
  • Anthropic found human-in-the-loop checkpoints degraded into rubber-stamping before switching to automated containment defenses.
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