Software Engineering
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The Front Door Was Never the Problem
Attackers stopped kicking down the front door a while ago. Now they slip in through the dependencies you never think about and 2024's xz backdoor showed just how close they came to owning half the internet.
Ahmad Tarabein
Software Developer
Claude Mythos and the Overhyped Promise of AI-Powered Bug Hunting
Anthropic's Claude has genuinely impressive reasoning capabilities, and its recent security research work is real but the breathless headlines declaring a new era of autonomous vulnerability discovery are getting ahead of the actual evidence.
Ahmad Tarabein
Software Developer
The 10x Engineer Myth: What High Performance Really Looks Like
The notion of a lone genius programmer who produces ten times the output of their peers persists in tech culture. The reality of high-performing engineering teams is far more interesting—and replicable.
Ahmad Tarabein
Software Developer