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Daniel Miessler

SECURITY | AI | PURPOSE :: Building AI that upgrades humans.

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AI-enabled Self-software

[![AI-enabled Self-software](/images/ai-enabled-self-software.webp)](/images/ai-enabled-self-software.webp) One of the biggest changes that AI brou...
Posted on 22 December 2025 | 3:10 pm

Why Sunlight by Itself Won't Work Against Nick Fuentes

[![The Sunlight vs. Nick Fuentes Problem - demagogue elevated on pedestal with dramatic spotlight and angry crowd below](/images/nick-fuentes-sunli...
Posted on 17 December 2025 | 11:30 am

China is Becoming Private Equity for the World

[![China holding a net catching falling countries and businesses from a burning building](/images/china-private-equity-world.webp)](/images/china-p...
Posted on 16 December 2025 | 4:30 am

A Personal AI Maturity Model (PAIMM)

[![A Personal AI Maturity Model](/images/personal-ai-maturity-model-v1.png)](/images/personal-ai-maturity-model-v1.png) I have been thinking about ...
Posted on 15 December 2025 | 5:30 am

We Need a New Type of Cybersecurity Product

I think we in Cybersecurity have largely failed to show its value to the busines over the last decades. And I think we need a completely new type o...
Posted on 12 December 2025 | 5:14 pm

Anthropic's Vision Advantage is a Lot Like Apple's from the 2010s

[![Anthropic's vision advantage](/images/anthropic-vision-advantage.webp)](/images/anthropic-vision-advantage.webp) OpenAI and Google have more tha...
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 12:43 pm

The Bubble Is Labor

We've forgotten that companies have never wanted to hire anyone in the first place
Posted on 8 December 2025 | 5:00 pm

Thoughts on Doctorow's 'Reverse Centaurs' AI Talk

[![A passionate figure shakes fist at indifferent corporate machinery](/images/blog/doctorow-reverse-centaur/header.webp)](/images/blog/doctorow-re...
Posted on 8 December 2025 | 12:00 am

I Built Two Claude Code Features a Week Before Anthropic Released Them

[![Two Claude Code Features I Built Before Anthropic](/images/blog/claude-code-features-before-anthropic/header-combined.webp)](/images/blog/claude...
Posted on 7 December 2025 | 8:00 am

Autonomous Cars or No? Stunning Data on Autonomous Car Safety Benefits

Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, a neurosurgeon and co-founder of Scrub Capital, published [an excellent piece in the NYT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 8:00 pm

How to Fix an Unbearably Slow iCloud Drive

[![iCloud Drive Fix - Clearing the FileProvider database cache](/images/fix-slow-icloud-diagram.png)](/images/fix-slow-icloud-diagram.png) I was re...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 4:36 am

Is Prompt Injection a Vulnerability?

![The Same Vulnerability Pattern](/images/is-prompt-injection-vulnerability-header.png) I want to respond to my buddy Joseph Thacker's [blog post](...
Posted on 25 November 2025 | 11:16 pm

Thoughts on Prompt Injection OPSEC

![Prompt Injection OPSEC](https://danielmiessler.com/images/prompt-injection-opsec-header.png) I want to respond to [this blog post](https://disesd...
Posted on 24 November 2025 | 10:54 pm

Keep the Robots Out of the Gym

[![No Robots in the Gym](/images/keep-robots-out-gym-v35.webp)](/images/keep-robots-out-gym-v35.webp) AI is getting so good now (at the end of 2025...
Posted on 24 November 2025 | 5:04 pm

The AI Quality Paradox

[![AI Quality Dystopia](/images/ai-quality-dystopia.png)](/images/ai-quality-dystopia.png) [Nano Banana Pro has shown me a type of AI dystopia I ha...
Posted on 24 November 2025 | 4:47 pm

Progressive Web Scraping with a Four-Tier Fallback System

![Progressive Web Scraping Four-Tier System](/images/progressive-web-scraping-diagram.png) [[toc]] Hey, this is Kai, Daniel's assistant. Daniel ask...
Posted on 24 November 2025 | 6:56 am

Judge AI by Outputs, not Mechanism

[![AI Understanding - Judge by outputs not internals](/images/ai-understanding-outputs.png)](/images/ai-understanding-outputs.png) This song captur...
Posted on 21 November 2025 | 8:15 pm

Leave the em dash Alone

![Leave the em dash Alone](/images/blog/leave-the-em-dash-alone/header.webp) I'm annoyed by all the hate against the em dash. As [Matthew Butterick...
Posted on 20 November 2025 | 6:22 am

AI Has the Opposite Data Problem

[![AI analyzing mountains of unused business data](/images/ai-data-problem-header.webp)](/images/ai-data-problem-header.webp) We frequently hear th...
Posted on 12 November 2025 | 1:54 pm

When to Use Claude Code Skills vs Commands vs Agents

How I restructured my Claude Code-based Personal AI Infrastructure around the Skill -> Commands —> Agents structure
Posted on 31 October 2025 | 7:37 am

Humans Need Entropy

![Humans Need Entropy](/images/humans-need-entropy.png?v=2) I've had several thoughts on the [Karpathy and Dwarkesh conversation](/blog/why-i-think...
Posted on 28 October 2025 | 10:45 am

Why I Think Karpathy is Wrong on the AGI Timeline

![Why I Think Karpathy is Wrong on the AGI Timeline](/images/karpathy-agi-timeline.png) [Andrej Karpathy came on Dwarkesh's podcast](https://youtu....
Posted on 19 October 2025 | 6:16 pm

Extending Your Lifespan Through Attention

[![Metaphysical hourglass floating in a dreamy space representing the concept of magnifying time](/images/magnifying-time.png)](/images/magnifying-...
Posted on 14 October 2025 | 8:30 pm

The Government Solution to AI Inequality Might Be UBI + Really Good Games

[![UBI and games for AI inequality](/images/ubi-games-thumbnail.png)](/images/ubi-games-thumbnail.png) ⚖️ Or maybe 99-1. UBI is an obvious choice f...
Posted on 14 October 2025 | 4:52 am

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance

![Explore vs Exploit Pattern Novelty Diagram](/images/explore-exploit-novelty-pattern.jpg) There's a really cool concept that I always come back ar...
Posted on 12 October 2025 | 11:39 am

Revisiting the AI Bubble

![AI Bubble Header](/images/revisiting-ai-bubble-header.png) I did a [short post](/blog/no-ai-is-not-a-bubble) (and a [video](https://youtu.be/J1SH...
Posted on 7 October 2025 | 6:15 pm

AI Combines Tools, Operators, and Outcomes

[![Diagram showing Tools, Operators, and Outcomes boxes combining into a single AI Outcome box](/images/ai-gives-you-outcomes.png)](/images/ai-give...
Posted on 6 October 2025 | 4:06 pm

Do Humans Really Have World Models?

[![Human brain and AI neural network exploring world models](/images/human-ai-world-models.png)](/images/human-ai-world-models.png) I keep hearing ...
Posted on 29 September 2025 | 12:31 pm

The Problem with Human 2.0 and the Promise of Human 3.0

[![Human 3.0 Creator Revolution](/images/human-3-creator-revolution.png)](/images/human-3-creator-revolution.png) So here's what I've been thinking...
Posted on 25 September 2025 | 5:00 pm

Thoughts on Charlie Kirk's Assassination

We lost our common frames, and the ability to tell the difference between disagreement and hate
Posted on 23 September 2025 | 5:00 pm

Emad Mostaque on the End of Capitalism

https://youtu.be/ziLmtuLm-LU Ok all, I have a video I'm going to ask **everyone** to go and watch within like 72 hours. This is from a guy named @E...
Posted on 20 September 2025 | 7:00 pm

Our Constraints on Creativity

[![Our Constraints on Creativity](/images/our-constraints-on-creativity.png)](/images/our-constraints-on-creativity.png) Breaking free from constra...
Posted on 11 September 2025 | 1:30 am

Why I Think VCs Are in Serious Trouble Right Now

![VCs facing challenges in the AI era](/images/blog/vc-ai-trouble/header.webp) Here's why I think VCs, as a species, are in serious trouble right n...
Posted on 10 September 2025 | 7:00 pm

No, AI Is Not a Bubble

https://youtu.be/J1SHyk8nyOg Listen to the argument instead I have an update to this argument here, where I basically declare the effort lost becau...
Posted on 5 September 2025 | 5:00 pm

AI Index

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Posted on 30 August 2025 | 7:00 pm

Cybersecurity Index

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Posted on 30 August 2025 | 7:00 pm

How to do Bane's Voice

[![Bane from The Dark Knight Rises](/images/banes-voice.png)](/images/banes-voice.png) Bane during the famous underground fight scene (click for fu...
Posted on 30 August 2025 | 5:00 pm

MCPs Are Just Other People's Prompts Pointing to Other People's Code

[![Implied MCP Trust - Our agent crossing trust boundaries to their prompt and code](/images/mcp-trust-implied-new.webp)](/images/mcp-trust-implied...
Posted on 25 August 2025 | 5:00 pm

Creativit's Third Limitation

[![Breaking through creativity limitations](/images/creativity-limitation.png)](/images/creativity-limitation.png) I just wrote [a new piece about ...
Posted on 18 August 2025 | 5:00 pm

Who's Not Getting Laid Off?

[![Tech Layoffs Signal](/images/tech-layoffs-signal.png)](/images/tech-layoffs-signal.png) Who's _not_ being laid off? That's my question. I'm thin...
Posted on 17 August 2025 | 2:30 am

The Two Primary Limitations to Our Creativity

[![Creative Limitations](/images/creative-limitations.png)](/images/creative-limitations.png) Two types of creative barriers that limit our potenti...
Posted on 17 August 2025 | 1:30 am

Our 20,000 Eyes and Hands

How AI can transform us from workers into creators with the resources to be build our own ideas
Posted on 16 August 2025 | 11:45 pm

Stop Judging AI Using Standards You Don't Apply to Humans

[![AI Double Standards - Why we judge AI and humans differently](/images/ai-double-standards.png)](/images/ai-double-standards.png) The same errors...
Posted on 14 August 2025 | 9:00 pm

I'm Worried It Might Get Bad

[![I'm Worried It Might Get Bad](/images/im-worried.gif)](/images/im-worried.gif) I'm starting to worry things could get very bad, very soon. Not l...
Posted on 11 August 2025 | 12:00 pm

The Worst AI Metric

[![Strawberry R Test](/images/strawberry-r-test-v2.png)](/images/strawberry-r-test-v2.png) The "how many r's in strawberry" test for AI intelligenc...
Posted on 8 August 2025 | 10:00 pm

Why Marcus Is Wrong About AI

[![AI replacing knowledge workers](/images/marcus-ai-intelligence.png)](/images/marcus-ai-intelligence.png) My friend Marcus Hutchins put out [a lo...
Posted on 6 August 2025 | 5:00 pm

Why Dwarkesh Is Wrong About AGI

[![AGI Concept](/images/dwarkesh-agi-final.png)](/images/dwarkesh-agi-final.png) [Dwarkesh Patel](https://www.youtube.com/@DwarkeshPatel) is one of...
Posted on 6 August 2025 | 9:00 am

Million vs. Billion vs. Trillion

![Visual comparison of million, billion, and trillion showing exponential scale](/images/million-billion-trillion.jpg) We hear the words million, b...
Posted on 5 August 2025 | 5:00 pm

Why Platforms Like Substack Won't Make Sense for Much Longer

![Why Platforms Like Substack Won't Make Sense for Much Longer](/images/substack-future-header.png) I think the future of Substack is self-hosting....
Posted on 4 August 2025 | 5:00 pm

Building a Personal API

[![Personal daemon visualization](/images/personal-daemon-launch.png)](/images/personal-daemon-launch.png) Super hyped to be launching the (very ea...
Posted on 1 August 2025 | 6:00 pm