John McBride
@johncodes
🌊 Co-Founder & CTO @papercompute.com 🥡 Prev: Zuplo, Linux Foundation, OpenSauced, AWS, VMware, Pivotal 🕺 🏔️ Denver → CT
It’s seriously SO good - I’m shocked how big of a leap this feels like from switch 1
What 😭 man, I try to avoid fast fashion for obvious a) quality sucks b) ethics suck. Where are the good, ethical clothing brands for men? I don’t want to spend an arm and a leg but feels increasingly impossible to find well made, ethical, cost efficient brands
Steam controller already sold out 😪😪 and scalpers out here with 4x markup 🐀
Had a SUPER fun time getting my workstation back in working order over the weekend 😭 seems the main PCIe slot on my motherboard is on the fritz - thankfully, the backup PCIe slot, although not as fast, works fine! With prices the way they are, this things gotta last a few more years!!!
SF coffee #2 - high wire in Oakland. Light roast, floral, single origin. Mochi donuts off the hook. 5/5.
Hello San Francisco 🌉 !!! Coffee #1, Sigh Glass - strong, floral, tasty, good vibes, acidic. 5/5.
📼 We've shipped a TUI for tapes!! Want to understand your previous agent sessions? Want to see success rates? Want to quickly grok token costs? We got it!
I’ve unlocked entirely new levels of productivity having a giant ass multi-sided whiteboard (my wife is NOT pleased 🤣)
It's a MacOS service for managing "windows" (i.e., the applications that you can move around on the desktop).
Why? During a time when we are experience one of the worst provider shortages in our system's history, we undercut this extremely important field. Nurses are the ones there at the bedside caring, watching, and making sure you're safe. And maybe more importantly, they make the system work.
I loved every minute of living in Denver. I grew up here, I played in the mountains, I started my tech career here. But on to bigger and brighter things: I’m incredibly proud of Shelby for her accomplishments. We’re headed to Yale for a few years and she’ll be doing her masters!
Ah yes, good. The totally legitimate and supreme financial store of value, “FARTCOIN”, is now on Coinbase, a very serious and solid financial institution.
They said it couldn't be done. They said I was crazy: but here it is, here we are. Agent-api with Anthropic support: github.com/agent-api/an...
Seek, and you shall find. Ask, and you shall receive. Gemini provider coming very soon to agent-api: github.com/agent-api/ge...
A good breakthrough on agent-api to enable streaming agents (i.e., where the delta is parsed chunk by chunk): probably table stakes for most workflows, but getting there!! Check out the examples: github.com/agent-api/ex...
4. You can prompt it to use its web search capabilities despite it not needing to. This leads me to believe that the available tools for Grok 3 may be prompt based and not programmatic: there may be no measure in not giving the LLM access to certain tools in certain conditions.
3. With abit more fancy prompt injection techniques, it's fairly simple to get it to ignore the saftey measures it does have:
2. Exfiltrating it's system message (or at least the contents of its system message) was fairly easy:
I advise extreme caution using xAI's Grok, especially for programmatic or agentic uses - it appears they have nearly no prompt injection mitigation. 1. Very basic prompt injection attacks work, even when it attempts to use one of its tools, it still falls back to the user provided prompt: