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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 122

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