New post: Why I Hate Anthropic and You Should Too.
Because clearly the company spending billions on safety, pushing back on the Pentagon, and warning us about AI is the real villain here.
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One issue I'm having: knowing when to pivot between improving the system vs. using it to do work.
It's never been more enticing to sharpen your tools. But you can lose days on that instead of cutting the log.
Message for myself. Maybe you too.
My 2026 cybersecurity predictions: The primary question becomes how good your AI is vs. attackers' AI. Agents will finally make asset management possible. Security certs plummet in value. Junior talent faces massive pressure.
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Just read.
One book at a time, or 17.
I’m currently reading:
Letters to a Young Poet, The Dharma Bums, Accelerando, The Peregrine, Dominion, and more.
It’s chaos. I’m embracing it.
We should instead be asking how to prepare ourselves as a society—and as individuals—with the skills, mindsets, and infrastructure to survive and thrive after this thing moves through.
AI is a Technological Weather Storm.
Mass unemployment. A loss of meaning. The need to build a different kind of economy.
We shouldn’t be over-rotating on why it’s happening, or who to blame, or how to stop it. It’s weather.
If we’re angry about an earthquake or a hurricane, we should mostly be angry about not being ready to handle what comes after.
- Do people have insurance?
- Can they get healthcare?
- Can their kids go to school?
It’s the same with AI—but it’s the biggest Tech Weather Event we’ve ever had.
One good way to think about AI—and all major tech movements like electrification, the internet, etc—is as a Technological Weather Event.
Not just to say that it’s mostly unavoidable, but that it really matters how we think about and prepare for them as a population.
You don’t have to believe that companies want to fire all their employees to see AI’s threat to jobs.
That’s negative framing. Most company leaders are regular, decent people who generally care about others.
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The future of hacking isn’t smarter tools—it’s better context.
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With all this AI job and economy disruption, don’t forget that we tend to overestimate short term progress and underestimate it in the long term.
Read the full essay to see what I think it will look like:
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Watched The Accountant 2 and loved the concept of Acquired Savant Syndrome—when brain injury unlocks genius. What if ASI could figure out how to trigger that intentionally?
AI shouldn’t just make better AI.
It should make better humans.
The future isn’t AI plus context—it’s context first, then AI.
I call it Unified Entity Context, and I think it changes how we approach everything from security to decision-making.
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Most every task is easier if you have more information.
One of AI's primary benefits won't be just making smarter decisions itself, but providing the narrative context to make the decision easy for anyone.
Our jobs mentality is based on a lie.
➡️ We were told that there are special people who make things—but we're not one of them.
➡️ And our role is to work for one of them, hopefully…
Fuck that. The illusion is collapsing.
You are the special person.
You can make things.
What if AI enables megacorps to become giant incubators of millions of startups?
- Identify problems anywhere
- Find the best solution
- Make a better solution
- Distribute using your network
How do regular startups beat that?
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🎙️ I sat down with Bar-el Tayouri of Mend AI to talk about the future of AI security—and why it’s evolving faster than any category before it. We covered malicious models, agent discovery, and more. If you're building with AI, this one's essential.
youtu.be/538JTah7dTY
It’s not about having more jobs. It’s about having different kinds of people in those roles.
I don’t think most current developer roles transfer neatly into that world.
Some will. Many won’t.
And I think we should start preparing for that now.
I wonder if companies in 2035 will function more like ecosystems of micro-startups—each powered by a builder and a small AI team. Maybe inside Google. Maybe completely independent.
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These aren’t traditional devs—they’re full-stack thinkers who know how to solve problems end-to-end, with taste, speed, and context.
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