Tyler (8:18)
And there's. And there's the new Snape character. So yes, very effective. I was, I. I was reflecting on this and thinking about how it's not just AI videos that are unlocked as the new meme format. Like 20 years ago, video editing was extremely difficult. Like you had to do it on a desktop. You had to have a piece of software that probably cost a lot of money. It was not widely accessible. And so these image makers, image memes. I was talking to Brandon about this, like, Good Guy Greg was one of these. Or like the insanity wolf. And it would just be like a picture, one image of a duck. And the duck would be on sort of like a solid colored background and that would be the template. And then somebody would put white text with black like block text impact font on the top and the bottom. And that was like the image meme. And that was accessible in the sense that it could be like generated on Ms. Paint. It was free to generate it, basically. Then we got video editing cap cut Instagram reels as an editor called Edits. And all of a sudden it became easy for someone to take a vibreal and put different text over it. I send you a bunch of these where I'll find some crazy vibreal and I'll just recontextualize it with a new laughing thing, new caption, basically. And so the classic one is like those four jets and the new Top Gun. And it's like when you and the boys all drive somewhere in separate cars or something like that, you know, as an example. But now you can generate full AI videos that can express the joke of the meme. And I think the next version of this is like software as a meme. S AAM, something like that. And we've been experimenting with the simulators. There's TBPN simulator, Jeremy Gifond simulator. There are more simulators coming. And all of a sudden the idea of building a video Game. Becoming a video game studio was an impossible challenge. It would be months and months of time, maybe millions of dollars to get anything reasonable. So you had to be commercial about it. You could not do it as a comedy bit, but now you can, or it's getting closer. Certainly our organization is set up to where we can turn Ben or Tyler loose for a few weeks and say, yeah, like work on this Vibe coding project for a few days. A few weeks. Like it's okay. You don't have a lot of other responsibilities that are going to creep in. But increasingly it's going to be more and more just like a few prompts on your phone to get the piece of software that is that meme. And you can think about the JMail Suite from Riley Walls as another software, as a meme moment where he's making a commentary on the Jeffrey Epstein saga and all of that, but he's instantiating the humor, the commentary in a piece of software that actually works. Although of course the feature set is a little bit boiled down from the full Google suite. But the UI is familiar and the UI is part of the joke. And so I think that's a little bit of where this goes. Well, let me tell you about Cognition. They're the makers of Devon, the AI software engineer. Crush your backlog with your personal AI engineering team. And let me tell you about Label Box. Oops, sorry, Label Box, RL Environments, Voice Robotics, evals and expert human data. Label Box is the data factory behind the world's leading AI teams. So there is a whole bunch of hack news going on. We're in a very weird week in terms of the news cycle because it's spring break and so a lot of executives of big tech companies are like, don't launch while my kids are out of school and we're going on vacation. I actually think this is my real theory. So we're in a little bit of a slow news week and you can see that like the Journal is covering announcements that happened last week. They're talking about Sora, they're talking about Disney, they're talking about things that are more reflective in Strathery. Ben Thompson has sort of a 50 year retrospective on Apple. It's not driven by a news item. It's not like Apple launched a new product this week. So Ben Thompson is taking a step back and reflecting. It's a great piece, but it's not exactly news driven because there isn't that much news coming from big tech companies, coming from the labs, et cetera. But there are a ton of crazy hacks, starting with Axios. There is an active supply chain attack on axios, one of NPM's most dependent on packages. So if you have been vibe coding, Axios is a package that helps with HTTP requests. So it gets sucked into all sorts of different projects. And if you upgraded to the latest version, you basically got a virus with that. And if that's running in the cloud, it's building, and that's probably maybe bad because it could steal API keys or SSH keys. It could do a lot of things could wreak havoc on your system. Also, if you built this piece of software and you included the contaminated Axios installer or package locally, it could potentially weasel its way out of your local environment and get onto your desktop. It's a virus, so be careful out there and I'm sure people will be responding. The recommendation from Ferros, who sort of broke the news over at socket security, is that if you use Axios, pin your version immediately and audit your lock files. Do not upgrade socket. Analysis confirmed that this was malware. Plain crypto JS is an obfuscated dropper loader that deobfuscates embedded payloads and operational strings at runtime, dynamically loads fs, OS and exec sync, evade static analysis, executes decoded shell commands, stages and copies payload files into ostemp and Windows program data directories, deletes and renames artifacts post execution to destroy forensic evidence.
