Entries for January 17, 2026
GitHub's trust model breaks under AI-generated code
The fundamental problem with GitHub is trust: humans are to be trusted. If you don't trust a human, why did you hire them in the first place?
Anyone who reviews and approves PRs bears responsibility. Rulesets exist and can enforce e.g. CODEOWNER reviews or only let certain people make changes to a certain folder
But the initial repo setup on GitHub is allow-by-default. Anyone can change anything until they are r...
Stop defaulting to weak coding agents for serious work
STOP using Claude Code and Sl(opus) to code if
❌ you are not a developer,
❌ or you are an inexperienced dev,
❌ or you are an experienced dev but working on a codebase you don't understand
If you *are* any of these, then STOP using models that are NOT state of the art. (See below for what you *should* use)
When you don't know what you are doing, then at least the model should know what you are doing. The less kn...
@onusoz · 2026-01-17
Codex agrees. Sycophant peh
@onusoz · 2026-01-17
@onusoz · 2026-01-17
It is clear at this point is that github's trust and data models will have to change fundamentally to accommodate agentic workflows, or risk being replaced by other SCM
One *cannot* do these things easily with github now:
- granular control: this agent running in this sandbox can only push to this specific branch. If an agent runs amok, it could delete everybody's branches and close PRs. github allows for recover...
@onusoz · 2026-01-17
Codex says "It's only reachable from داخل the kubernetes cluster"
Little does Codex know turkish has borrowed loanwords from over 7 languages and I can understand it
@onusoz · 2026-01-17
Automated AI reviews on github by creating an ai-review skill and a script to paste trigger prompts and wait for their response.
It is instructed to loop and not stop until all AI review feedback is resolved. This AI review workflow developed gradually based on the current capabilities, and I've realized recently that it became quite mechanical. So decided to automate it in full ralph spirit (it's ok because it's...
GitHub has to change
It is clear at this point is that GitHub’s trust and data models will have to change fundamentally to accommodate agentic workflows, or risk being replaced by other SCM