Max Howell
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@mxcl
Creator of Homebrew. You’re welcome and I apologize. Now building the security layer for what happens when AI agents use it:
@AutomicVaultApex, NC, USA
Joined April 2007
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Developers have become the new secrets vault. The biggest supply chain attacks of 2026 didn't start by attacking production. They started by attacking developer laptops. - TanStack - Nx Console - Bitwarden CLI - LiteLLM - durabletask The malware all looked for the same things:
Looking for some contract work. If you have anything going. I have to pay the bills as I work to get projects like
@AutomicVaulttowards COSS status. Creator of Homebrew and that!
I no longer use GitHub for private projects. Mostly because the reliability has tanked. But it's getting to the point where doing Open Source on GitHub is becoming impossible due to the frequent outages. Not great.
The “oh I get it” moment for
@AutomicVaultis the first time it pops up “Codex wants to run `gh something you don’t want`”. or `Claude wants to brew install something-you-don’t-want`”. Or Xcode randomly was trying to get at your github token.
Automic Vault getting gud
