When Your Editor Becomes the Worm
A coordinated npm and PyPI campaign turned Claude Code and VS Code config files into a self-spreading vector, Mira Murati's lab put out its first model and it is an argument with the hands-off-keyboard doctrine, and matklad explains why rust-analyzer's build system is really an org chart. Plus a small rant about cursors, and two builds from the LocalLLaMA subreddit that keep pushing the local-frontier line by hand.
The mini-shai-hulud campaign — 170 packages, 404 versions, and a self-spreading IDE payload
Thinking Machines ships TML-Interaction-Small and picks a fight with the…
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