CTFs, Scrum, and Claude's Bedtime
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%…
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