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174 contributions to Clief Notes
CoPilot
Yes. I’m being forced to the dark side. I’m looking to push all of our learnings we have here into the framework of what’s possible inside Enterprise security. My first step is to add this post to the community and see if you will drop wisdom, repos, and guidance in the comments. Thank you kindly.
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Stuck on enterprise CoPilot but luckily I am on pilot ChatGPT at my day job. We are so locked down in CoPilot that I basically build my Knowledge base/ICM in Chat GPT, then create a single file markdown. The headers and sub headers with index in the file helps organize it enough for a single file CoPilot. So basically I have to drop certain sharepoint files into a copilot chat with some instructions. It is painful but it works.
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@Jeffrey Taylor The thing I have been experimenting with is how much the AI used the headers/sub headers in Word docs. In markdown files it helps give the AI context of the layering of the information. #, ##, ### levels etc.
Are MD Files dead?
I just saw a YouTube video that discussed the death of MD Files, arguing that HTML files are the better way to go. Wanted to get the community ‘s thoughts on this and how it would impact ICM approach, if at all. Thanks
Are MD Files dead?
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Markdown files are great for the headers and sections by nature. These give the AI out of the box some basic ideas on the hierarchical structure of the data. They are easy to store and diff on places like GIT.
The Stranger tests the Unrelenting Director
THE STRANGER TEST: When is AI work actually verified? Two principles I’ve been working with: 1. Self-attestation ≠ verification. An AI saying “tests pass” is a claim, not evidence. Independent verification isn’t about switching models. It’s about independently executing a test against evidence, without being told the original conclusion. 2. Copies aren’t corroboration. Three AI models agreeing doesn’t mean three independent confirmations. If they inherit the same assumptions, they may simply reproduce the same mistake. Count independent evidence paths, not votes. The Stranger Test: Can someone who wasn’t in the room reproduce your conclusion from the evidence alone? Give them the source material, acceptance criteria, and test instructions. Withhold your conclusion. Let them determine the result. I recently applied this to my own AI-assisted engineering work. A prototype had been reported as built and tested. But independent verification hadn’t been established. That distinction matters. BUILT / TESTED claimed. INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED not established. This isn’t about distrusting AI. It’s about building systems where trust doesn’t depend on who tells the story. If the evidence can’t survive without the storyteller, the conclusion isn’t verified. That’s the standard I’m working toward.
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@Johan Liebenberg What's worked for me is taking the code out of the check. On a client's booking system we split the testing. The client used the real app like a customer would (book, move, cancel), and a separate Claude session watched the database with read-only access and said out loud what each click actually wrote. It caught a sync hole the vendor docs never warned about: brand new appointments came through with no last-updated time, so the sync that looks for recent changes just never saw them. Reading the code wouldn't have flagged that. The data did. Two things make that independent, and neither one is the model. The checker starts fresh and gets the evidence, not the builder's summary, which is Bill's point. And it can read but can't write, same as Aurel's log, so the builder can't touch what the checker looks at. On different models, I'd change the brief before I'd change the model. A fresh session with no build history, told "find what breaks, don't fix anything," is your red team. My solo version of purple: the builder fixes, then one more fresh session walks the fixed version, because fixes break things too. On top of my own checks I've started running Cloudflare's free audit skill: https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill. It's built the way Bill describes, every finding goes to a fresh agent whose job is to disprove it. Their README says one run finds roughly half of what repeated runs find, though, and it only reads the code, so anything in your hosting or database settings comes back as a question for you to go check. Your mechanic analogy is where I end up too. AI is good at the pieces now. It'll find the bug, write the test, patch the hole. Where it's still weak is the shape of the whole thing: how it's designed and organized, and whether the parts are split up in a way that still holds when you add the next ten features. That takes someone who's watched systems break in production, had to fix them, and knows which patterns age well and which ones bite you later. For me that's the part still worth paying a human for. This is the lane I am leaning into since I have experience there.
Our software Idea made it through the first filter of A16z Speedrun
a16z speedrun is one of the biggest accelerators in the world. We submitted our application a bit back on the recommendation of one of our friends. Our EdubaWare software has been in closed testing for a bit (get ready, next week thousands of you will get access to it and see our changes) We received and Email yesterday saying they want to hear more from us and to send them a video in under three minutes that explains: - Your backgrounds and greatest accomplishments, professional or personal - What makes you exceptional, and why you're the team to win this market - What you're building and what problem it solves - Why this is a big, underserved opportunity - What progress you've made so far  Now fitting all that into one video is challenging, but we did our best. I hope this gives you a view into the other side of my life which is my company Eduba!
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Congrats Team 🙌
What Can We Build Together?
Over the past few days, I’ve had some fascinating conversations here in this community, including a private chat with @Bryson Bossley . Those conversations got me thinking. And last night, I couldn’t stop thinking. One thought led to another. Ideas connected. Questions became bigger. And somehow, I ended up writing a speech and turning it into a video. So please, WATCH THE VIDEO FIRST. And if you recognize yourself in what I’m saying, if something in that message resonates with you… Come back and read this. ——— What Can We Build Together? 50,000 minds. Thousands of skills. Countless ideas. And yet… most of us are still trying to succeed alone. Think about that for a moment. What if the greatest opportunity in this community isn’t the next AI tool, another course, or another business? What if it’s the person reading this right now? Someone here might have exactly the knowledge you’re missing. Someone else might need exactly what you already know. And the strange thing is… Neither of you even knows the other exists. Isn’t that a tremendous waste of potential? I made this video because I believe we’re overlooking something extraordinary. It’s not another tutorial. It’s not a sales pitch. It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves. What could we achieve if we stopped trying to do everything alone and started combining what we’re already good at? Maybe we don’t need another thousand ideas. Maybe we need to connect the people who can bring them to life. And maybe it starts right here. Not with another complicated system. Not with another promise of success. But with people discovering each other. So let me ask you three simple questions. 1. What are you genuinely good at? 2. What do you need help with? 3. What would you build with others? Don’t overthink your answers. You don’t need to impress anyone. You don’t need to sell yourself. Just be yourself. Because somewhere among the people reading this, someone might have exactly the missing piece you’ve been searching for.
What Can We Build Together?
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@Pascal Pollack I usually pull it all then sort the order out myself. Luckily my second job is not that busy yet :P
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@Ruby Sparks I have seen some weeding robots
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13 years shipping production software. I build with AI weekly for real clients, and I care most about the questions the AI never volunteers.

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