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Daniel Miessler

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SECURITY | AI | PURPOSE :: Using AI to move people from current state to ideal state. Cybersecurity and AI engineer, founder, writer, and creator based in San Francisco.

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2026 126

  1. Focus on Problems Instead of Companies
  2. The Hard Problem of Jealousy and the Easy Problem of Consciousness
  3. The Post-AI Security Floor
  4. It's the Energy Changing the Frames
  5. Your Energy Changes How You See the World
  6. General Hill-Climbing: The One Main Loop in AI
  7. I'm on Team Explanation
  8. Models Are the How, Harnesses Are the What
  9. Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code
  10. Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code
  11. Custom Content for Everyone
  12. AGI Prediction Update (2025-2028)
  13. Introducing UL Gauntlet, a Benchmark for How Well AI Explains
  14. I Write My Own Stage Directions Now
  15. My Thoughts on Renaming AI to Super Intelligence
  16. Harness Gardens
  17. Our AI Agents Should Pay the People Who Help Them
  18. AI State of the Union (October 2026)
  19. College Is Not One Thing
  20. Using a Foot Pedal to Do AI Dictation
  21. How Jev Picks the Model and Effort for Every Prompt
  22. Two Upgrades to My AI Stack: Vigil and Idea-to-Video
  23. Attacker vs. Defender AI Advantage
  24. How to Think About the Difference Between Choice and Score in Jev
  25. I Think Our Main Agents Will Have Names
  26. My Early Thoughts on Jev
  27. Anthropic's Misuse Report, Condensed to 117 Findings
  28. Evolution, LitRPG, and AI Harnesses
  29. The Boring Way to Get to AI Taking Over Everything
  30. The Socrates Agent
  31. Watch the Plot
  32. The Good Person Bank
  33. Humans Aren't Aligned Either
  34. Socratic AI
  35. Cliff's Notes for Everything
  36. Peak Human Readership
  37. The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health
  38. I Only Do Anything Once
  39. I'm Worried About a Prompt Injection Worm
  40. Unconventional Thought Is the Differentiator
  41. How to Get Started in Cybersecurity 2026
  42. How AI Builders Will Get Hacked
  43. Fix Execution, Not the SOP
  44. Stolen Authority
  45. I Played ARC-AGI-3 With My Own Method
  46. How Easy It Would Be to Hack You
  47. Another Crazy Experience with AI
  48. There Is Only One Technology
  49. The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing
  50. Ilya Explains How LLMs Create a World Model
  51. Creativity vs. Consumption
  52. Where an AI Watermark Can Hide in Plain Text
  53. "Nobody Asked for A.I." Is a Stupid Argument
  54. Work Just Became Fun for Millions of People
  55. Why Aren’t Things Worse?
  56. The AI-Native Company
  57. AIL Badges
  58. What the Singularity Actually Means
  59. The Answer to the Harness Question
  60. The Entire Game for AI Is Articulation of Ideal State
  61. The OpenAI Hack Was a Mini Paperclip Maximizer
  62. AI Is Just Thinking and Doing
  63. Kimi K3 Might Have Just Started a Crash of the US Economy
  64. The Three Components of Becoming AI Antifragile
  65. Avoid the AI Expertise Trap
  66. From Prompt Engineering to Intent Engineering
  67. Minimizing Machine Work Maximizes Human Work
  68. Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria
  69. AI Blogging From Inside Vim
  70. I Think AGI Just Happened
  71. Why Don't We Put Handguns in the Convenience Aisle?
  72. An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation
  73. The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind
  74. Debating the Morality of Dario Amodei
  75. My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI
  76. The Ultimate Prompt For Businesses Being Pushed Into Using AI
  77. Prompts to Run When a New Pinnacle Model Drops
  78. A Unified Theory For How AI Will Affect Jobs
  79. The Most Durable Human Value
  80. How to Rate the AI We're All Chasing
  81. Finding the Middle in AI Narratives
  82. AI Predicts the Text of Answers
  83. Thoughts on AI Adoption Speed
  84. How I'm Thinking About the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs
  85. Post-AI Jobs Will Go to a Tiny Sliver
  86. Could Suddenly-Great Open Source AI Crash the US Economy?
  87. The Razor's Edge of Human Government Design
  88. The Main Path to Truly Creative AI
  89. Text is Thought, and Thought is Holy
  90. Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI
  91. Announcing PAI 5.0
  92. AI Is Not the Villain (or the Hero)
  93. AI Layoffs Aren't About AI
  94. A Conversation With Claude on Deutsch, Knowledge, and the PAI Algorithm
  95. Coding is a Meta-Task
  96. Weak vs. Strong AI Rollouts
  97. AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires
  98. Jensen vs. Dwarkesh on China Chips
  99. Mythos is Just the New Normal
  100. We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant
  101. Good and Bad Harness Engineering
  102. It's Time for Full Activation
  103. AI Only Has to Beat 3/10
  104. How to Avoid Aperture Collapse
  105. We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos
  106. Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable
  107. Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days
  108. The Most Important Ideas in AI Right Now (April 2026)
  109. What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap
  110. We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI
  111. AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding
  112. Exactly Why and How AI Will Replace Knowledge Work
  113. Information Overload Is an Invisibility Cloak
  114. People Got Unhappier When Life Got Easy
  115. Why I Believe in SOTA Models Over Custom Ones
  116. The Culture Series: A Complete Guide to Glanding
  117. The Great Transition
  118. Why I Hate Anthropic and You Should Too
  119. Bitter Lesson Engineering
  120. A Simple Framework for Being Anti-Fragile
  121. Nobody is Talking About Generalized Hill-Climbing (at Runtime)
  122. Customizing Your Claude Code Spinner Verbs
  123. Pursuing the Algorithm
  124. Claude Code Addiction is Addiction to Creation
  125. Everything Daniel Has Said About AI Since 2016, Graded by His AI
  126. AI Changes I Expect in 2026

2025 13

  1. Cybersecurity Changes I Expect in 2026
  2. AI-enabled Self-software
  3. China is Becoming Private Equity for the World
  4. A Personal AI Maturity Model (PAIMM)
  5. We Need a New Type of Cybersecurity Product
  6. Anthropic's Vision Advantage is a Lot Like Apple's from the 2010s
  7. The Bubble Is Labor
  8. Thoughts on Doctorow's 'Reverse Centaurs' AI Talk
  9. I Built Two Claude Code Features a Week Before Anthropic Released Them
  10. Autonomous Cars or No? Stunning Data on Autonomous Car Safety Benefits
  11. How to Fix an Unbearably Slow iCloud Drive
  12. Is Prompt Injection a Vulnerability?
  13. articulate and pursue their Ideal State

2024 1

  1. bring most knowledge work in-house