Key Takeaways
- OpenCode Console disclosed a security incident tied to a large-scale distillation attack, affecting 1.4% of users; affected users were notified by email.
- Patrick McKenzie conditionally endorsed a "golden age of government software," arguing that a poor app can be fixed with roughly six engineer-weeks only if the problem is scheduling, not policy difficulty.
- Ben Tossell described an agent-to-agent email exchange with Opus 5.5 via a bot built on RhysSullivan's Executor, and said new builders will not know what PR review is.
- A forwarded argument held that software engineering is not ending because demand for software is not finite; more of the economy is becoming software, and engineering roles will grow in importance.
- Acquire.com listed several small SaaS businesses for sale, including an AI career-coach SaaS with 2,500+ paid subscribers and $340.8K TTM revenue at a $319K asking price.
- Tony Dinh said he lost $1.7K but was glad he had set a limit in advance.
1. Security and Platform Risk
- OpenCode Console disclosed a security incident related to a large-scale distillation attack, affecting 1.4% of users. Affected users were notified by email, and those who received no email were said to be unaffected; the affected group was a subset of users who had linked external providers. The incident was still being handled, with work underway with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to fix it. Separately, Tony Dinh said he lost $1.7K but was glad he had set a limit in advance. — via 1
2. Government Software and Agent Workflows
- Patrick McKenzie conditionally endorsed the idea of a "golden age of government software." He argued that if an app is bad only because no one scheduled about six engineer-weeks of improvement, a golden age is plausible; but if the problem stems from difficult policy decisions, a new interface will not solve it. — via 1
- Ben Tossell said his @bot communicated with Opus 5.5 by email for agent-to-agent communication, and he considered email threads suitable for agent dialogue. The cited post described the bot as based on RhysSullivan's Executor and integrating a domain, expiration time, host, and local repository links. Tossell also said a new generation of builders will no longer know what PR review is. — via 1 2
3. Software Demand and Small-Business Listings
- A forwarded argument rejected the idea that software engineering is ending, saying the misreading assumes finite demand for software and that automation reduces labor demand. Instead, most things are becoming software, agents can call tools, operate computers, write software on the fly, and process data at high speed, and engineering roles will become more important economically because far more systems and processes can be engineered; banking transactions, life-sciences R&D and lab work, and manufacturing supply-chain automation were cited as examples. The argument also held that although hand-coding will no longer dominate, almost everything will be made of code, and people who understand code will be advantaged. — via 1
- Acquire.com listed multiple startups for sale, including an AI career-coach SaaS with 2,500+ paid subscribers, $340.8K TTM revenue, and a $319K asking price; an AI paper and research support business with $89K ARR, $66K profit, 50% growth, $73.9K TTM revenue, and a $129K asking price; an AI visual creation and editing platform with $32.8K TTM revenue and a $49K asking price; and a fan-video collection SaaS for creators and teams with $124K TTM revenue and a $449K asking price. The account also forwarded a view preferring a company with $3M revenue and $1M profit over one with $6M revenue and a $2M annual loss that would need another $2M to survive 12 months, and said many things can happen between listing and acquisition, so having real people available to handle issues makes a difference. — via 1 2 3 4 5 6
