Evolution, Lit RPG and AI Harnesses
I went on a walk and ended up connecting three things I've been thinking about: evolution, LitRPG, and personal AI harnesses. Why listening...
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I spend between five and twenty hours a week consuming articles, books, and podcasts looking for the most interesting ideas around security, technology, and how they interact with us as huma...
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20 of 548 episodesThe Missing Piece Is Ideal State
📝 Theo put out a video saying you should turn off Claude Code's memory, and it triggered me enough to record a response. My argument: the r...
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing
Anthropic is going after the enterprise operations layer; OpenAI wants to be everyone's personal agent. Both are multi-trillion-dollar marke...
Debating the Morality of Dario Amodei
A debate with Zack Korman on the morality of Dario Amodei specifically, and Anthropic in general. Zack's version of the video: https://youtu...
Rethinking AI Harnesses
Why we should think of the AI harness not as a coding tool, but as an Intent Engineering system that manages your entire life — a LifeOS. ht...
Why We Need Some AI Model Controls
My argument for why we need some AI model controls. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade
AI Predicts the Text of Answers
A logical argument and demonstration of how AI has one type of understanding while lacking another. https://aiunderstands.ai Become a Member...
Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI
Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI. It's not that companies aren't using AI—it's that they can't. Become a Member: https...
We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant
There's tons of confusion about what we're all building towards with Personal AI. Are we building Agents? AI Harnesses? To what end? In this...
Why AI Will Replace Knowledge Workers
A longer form discussion on exactly how and why AI will replace knowledge workers. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade
Why I Believe in SOTA Models Over Custom Ones
I think the future is cheaper and Open Source SOTA models combined with context, not custom, narrow models. Become a Member: https://danielm...
AI Quality Inversion
A troubling thought about what we will think about high-quality content in the future. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade
The Great Transition
There are a bunch of different transitions happening right now—all at the same time, all (I think) heading in the same direction. Here...
Starting 2026
A welcome back and early entry into 2026. Sponsored by: Knocknoc! Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade
Judge AI based on Output, Not Mechanism
How we can use an output-based system to judge whether or not different kinds of technology achieve understanding or intelligence. Become a...
Humans Need Entropy
How humans and AI models both share the weakness of deterioration without novel inputs. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade
Why I Think Karpathy is Wrong on the AGI Timeline
Karpathy is confusing LLM limitations with AI system limitations, and that makes all the difference. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler...
Novelty Exploration vs. Pattern Exploitation
How going from exploration to exploitation can help you as both a consumer and creator of everything. Become a Member: https://danielmiessle...
Magnifying Time
Some thoughts on how novelty and attention magnify the time that we have. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade
A Conversation With Harry Wetherald CO-Founder & CEO At Maze
➡ Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats with AI-Driven Vulnerability Management with Maze: https://mazehq.com/ In this conversation, I speak with Harr...