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Noah Citron is the Head of Engineering at a16z crypto, helping portfolio companies resolve technical issues and contributing to the open-source development of core protocol infrastructure, with a focus on the Ethereum ecosystem and light clients.
Noah Citron is the Head of Engineering at a16z crypto, helping portfolio companies resolve technical issues and contributing to the open-source development of core protocol infrastructure, with a focus on the Ethereum ecosystem and light clients.
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X account @noahcitron posted: “github making you pay to branch protect master is crazy. I get that this used to be a feature only needed by teams but in the agentic era it's a basic necessity. want to prevent your agent from clobbering your repo? pay up.”
X account @noahcitron posted: “anyone else occasionally get put into an a/b test on a site you normally use where it seems some pm has decided to see how bad they can possibly make the app?”
X account @noahcitron posted: “codex putting that pet thing on my screen while I'm trying to do my job should be a crime. in what world does someone want to talk to a little animated pet while working?”
X account @noahcitron posted: “Guys AI found several impractical algorithms that have *no* effect on real world cryptography. We absolutely must advise everyone to rotate wallets and accidentally lose all their coins as a countermeasure.”
X account @noahcitron posted: “Probably the most important point here. Hashing is more conservative than EC from the perspective of a quantum adversary. For an AI adversary with only classical computers, we have no intuition that hashes are any better. Similar point can be made for hashes vs lattices too.”
X account @noahcitron posted: “mathematicians: math is beautiful machines: math is ugly. humans were just only able to find the elegant answers. anyways here's an O(n^1.9992) algorithm for 3SUM.”
X account @noahcitron posted: “Hearing a lot of discourse about removing the sync committee since we can prove full consensus now. I like the idea but please let's wait until we at least have secure zkVMs to do the proving.”
X account @noahcitron posted: “me: implement this feature codex: done me: are there any bugs in this feature you just implemented? codex: what are you, a criminal?”
