Notes on automation, AI, and building software that actually helps small businesses — in plain language.
Six months of malware hunting a client's QuickBooks and banking logins — then nagging them to pair their phone so it could read their 2FA codes. Cisco Talos documents that technique.
My bank knows what I spend. Apple knows how I slept. Google has years of my email. Each hands me its own dashboard behind its own login, and none will tell me how it all moves together — so I pulled it into one two-megabyte file I own.
A personal AI agent that lives on a Raspberry Pi in my living room — it texts me a daily briefing, watches my biometrics, buys things on a budgeted card, and can ship code fixes over SSH while I'm at the gym.
Neural networks are the pinnacle of human engineering — and woefully inefficient. A hot take on why the real frontier isn't bigger models, but doing far more with far less.
If the only way to solve AI alignment is to give a machine real emotional experience — and any being with emotional experience deserves autonomy — can we ever build an AI that is both perfectly aligned and fully under our command?