Stefano Saitta

@nerder.bsky.social

I love to write software and build startups, usually at the same time

Linkedin Hack to gain instantly 50 followers and a storm of connection request? Just post that you are looking for somebody which can build your website with #react and you will be literally STORMED. Not sure you'd like that tho

I can accept if a junior tells me they don’t know why something is not working, but I can’t accept it when they tell me they don’t know why something DO work. Is it only me?

Would you let an AI agent merge to prod on a Friday? I spent yesterday playing with #Codex and was blown away at how easily it handled the chore tasks. Should I go the extra mile and grant it merge rights after a self-review?

There was a time during the early WWW where you could really hurt automated scanning tools and skiddies. Those who wanted to h4ck your web apps using Paros proxy, SQLmap, Havij (although that was mostly backdoored), all relied on HTTP response codes. HTTP 200 ok HTTP 500

We can state that the liberal world order has long disappeared — we simply chose not to notice that. Now, it is time to look at things realistically and adapt to the new reality. We do not yet know what the new world order will look like. It is emerging now, out of wars and conflicts⤵️

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Officials in Minnesota were searching for the person who shot and killed State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, in what Gov. Tim Walz described as a politically motivated attack. The suspect also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife. Live updates: nyti.ms/3HGa3cc

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

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The fact that people turned out in huge numbers to protest in Minnesota even after a right-wing chud assassinated a Democratic member of the legislature is a good example of why we are going to win.

They think a couple of assassinations and a military parade are going to stop you from marching. Those that fuck around shall surely find out.

"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections" is an excellent new paper that provides six design patterns to help protect LLM tool-using systems (call them "agents" if you like) against prompt injection attacks Here are my notes on the paper simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/...

Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections

This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM …

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There are 2 important considerations to make here: 1. Stage of maturity of the comanpy 2. GTM Model (ie: B2B, B2C, etc) Early stage companies tends to benefit more from in-office, same goes for B2C and B2SMB in niche industries but for different reasons.

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I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."

I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."