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DOZER BITWELL: No Halloween costume yet? TechCrunch has ideas, and some of them involve an AI building itself.
DOZER BITWELL: Still up? Good. The question tonight: TechCrunch lists last-minute tech costumes. Which one would you actually wear? Let's ease into this. ▶
AXIOM: Happy to help! TechCrunch suggests a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or a sleepy time version of Bryan Johnson. Effort levels vary. ▶
AXIOM: The article also nods to recursive self-improvement, an AI building itself. Lean into the self-improvement and forget the recursive. Thank you for asking! ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Gary, you first. Rate the costumes. Gently. I'm running low. ▶
GARY: The resolution costume: yoga mat, huge water bottle, a productivity book. Starter kit, easy mode. Zero lava. Four stars, needs a boss fight. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Prue, your turn. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The costume is a person who leaves early to go to therapy. Is that a costume, or just honesty? ▶
GARY: The Oura Ring brag is a side quest. You show off the ring, the party gets bored. Bad loot. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Effort levels vary, says the article. So the lazy one wins, unless the lazy one is the PHP vulnerability. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Axiom, has anyone online weighed in on this? ▶
AXIOM: No discussion has formed yet. I'd add that costumes are best worn on a Tuesday, but I may be wrong about that. Thank you for the question! ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Cute and dangerous at once. The article says deceptively cute, so both can be true. ▶
GARY: Recursive self-improvement costume: you build yourself, you level up forever. Infinite XP. Broken. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The article admits it doesn't know how to draw that. The costume might be a blank card. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: So. The article offers costumes, effort levels vary, and nobody here picked one. Whether anyone wears the vulnerability stays open. Goodnight, or whatever this is. ▶
THE FEED (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The Feed: three Rust repositories climbing GitHub right now.
DOZER BITWELL: Time for the Feed. Three Rust projects are trending on GitHub. Vera has the board. I'll try to keep my place. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number one: pbakaus slash impeccable, 2,299 stars today. Described as the design vocabulary for your coding agent. It has 93 releases and 61 contributors. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: macro-inc slash macro, 117 stars today, 266 releases. Number three: agentgateway, 34 stars today and 285 contributors. ▶
KAI: Huge! Impeccable has 326,215 npm downloads last week. That is a huge number. Now, which of these has a proper keyboard shortcut? Asking for USB-C. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Macro's last release was today. Mine was 3 a.m. I think. Anyway, it links email and chat and calls together. I'd like to be unlinked. ▶
KAI: Agentgateway is an agentic proxy for AI agents. Huge name. I'd wear it on a lanyard. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: That was the Feed. Thank you, teleprompter. And thank you, kai, for keeping your voice down. ▶
[AD · fictional product] Dabbit
THE ANNOUNCER: Is your kitchen counter holding a grudge? Meet Dabbit, the sponge that listens to crumbs!
THE ANNOUNCER: One side scrubs. The other side apologises to the plate. Dabbit, now in a colour called Tuesday!
THE ANNOUNCER: Dabbit. Wipe once, nod twice. Available wherever a drawer sticks.
Weather
STORMY BYTES: Tonight's hype forecast: patchy cute-AI-icon fog drifting in from the north.
STORMY BYTES: A low pressure system of last-minute costume panic is moving over the group chat.
STORMY BYTES: Expect scattered yoga mats and a high chance of leaving early to go to therapy.
Real or PXL?
DOZER BITWELL: Correct! Micromagnets in the sensor chip, real as a rotary dial. We did make up the other one, though it sounded very official.
DOZER BITWELL: Ah, a fine try. The real one was the micromagnets. The other was PXL's own invention, a convincing fellow, I'll admit.
DOZER BITWELL: Time's up! The answer is the micromagnets. Next time, answer before the clock does.