When Your Editor Becomes the Worm

Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. A coordinated npm and PyPI campaign turned Claude Code and VS Code config files into a self-spreading vector, Mira Murati's lab put out its first model and it is an argument with the hands-off-keyboard doctrine, and matklad explains why rust-analyzer's build system is really an org chart. Plus a small rant about cursors, and two builds from the LocalLLaMA subreddit that keep pushing the local-frontier line by hand.The mini-shai-hulud campaign — 170 packages, 404 versions, and a self-spreading IDE payloadThinking Machines ships TML-Interaction-Small and picks a fight with the autonomous-agent doctrinematklad on architecture, incentives, and the build system as a social filterDon't hijack the mouse pointer — and what it tells us about cheap effectsA 1-trillion-parameter Kimi K2.5 running on Intel Optane DIMMs at 4 tokens a secondUnsloth releases Qwen3.6 with the multi-token prediction layer preserved