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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Some folks, who may be familiar to some or more of you, accidentally discovered that if your git repo symlinks
CLAUDE.MDto, say,/dev/urandom, it breaks Claude code.https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116779793188712173
The thread is actually about trying to attract and manipulate autonomous coding agents, but they’ve only had limited success so far, which may have been slowed down by the above symlink trick.
See, if a person had written the system and had some kind of reasonable design or whatever then this kind of vulnerability may have turned into a full skeleton key to crack the entire system wide open. Instead, the superior machine intelligence ensures that all components will break in slightly different ways under slightly different conditions, thus ensuring no single fault can allow an adversary to completely compromise the system, provided of course that they can't just inject a prompt somewhere because as we all know that's a structural vulnerability that can completely crack the system open.