Francois Marais

Francois Marais

Cybersecurity founder building Tenarie.

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I’m Francois, based in New Zealand, and I’m building Tenarie. I’ve spent 24 years in cyber security, which mostly means I’ve seen a lot of confusion, spreadsheets, risk registers, acronyms, and people quietly wondering, “Are we actually getting better?” That question is why I started Tenarie. I want to make cyber security clearer, more practical, and easier for organisations to act on. Less noise, less box-ticking, and more useful guidance on where you stand, what needs attention, and how to improve. I’m here to learn, meet other builders, share the journey, and get honest feedback.

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Do programmers even feel like programmers anymore?

Saw a post from an 8-year dev this week. He said any junior with an agent now matches his output, and he feels no pride left in it. It got huge, because a lot of people quietly feel the same.

I read it from the other side. I'm a designer, not an engineer. For years "can you build this" meant "find someone technical and pray they stay interested." Usually they didn't. AI took the thing that hurt that dev and handed it to me.

Same shift. Loss from one seat, freedom from another.

I'm shipping a Mac app solo right now, as someone who can't write a backend from scratch. Two years ago that was a joke.

We just achieved lightning fast computer use that is repeatable, it's a breakthrough

I can't believe that this is in real time, I just can't believe it!
NeuralAgent is using interfaces AT LIGHTNING SPEED.
If you ever used Claude Cowork computer use or other computer use agents, you'd know how powerful this is!
The video is in real time, it's at playback 1.0, no speeding at all, all computer use demos you were seeing were at least 8x speeded (including our own old demos)!
And the task is:
"Send a Whatsapp desktop message to Khalid Shadid about the future of AI, attach an image in the message from my downloads, it's a chatgpt generated image. GO!"
Our fast model is now performing at its best ever in terms of speed and accuracy! It now checks its work while maintaining high speed!
You must try it now, download NeuralAgent here:
https://getneuralagent.com/downl...

3d ago

What “low-cost” stack would you recommend for a first-time founder launching a product to save money

AI is a great, cheap foundation we can all agree on that (depending on token usage, of course).

When you re building your first product, and you re not sure if it will work and earn money, the obvious goal is to keep costs as low as possible and avoid burning money early on.

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