Daniel Miessler
SECURITY | AI | PURPOSE :: Building AI that upgrades humans.
The Socrates Agent
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Posted on 8 September 2026 | 6:45 pm
Watch the Plot
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Posted on 8 September 2026 | 1:16 am
The Good Person Bank
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Posted on 8 September 2026 | 12:30 am
Humans Aren't Aligned Either
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Posted on 8 September 2026 | 12:27 am
Socratic AI
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Posted on 4 September 2026 | 7:05 pm
Cliff's Notes for Everything
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Posted on 4 September 2026 | 6:43 pm
Peak Human Readership
A lone writer in warm sienna works at a desk on top of a purple machine that crushes his pages into tiny slips for a crowd below staring at their p...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 3:47 am
The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health
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Posted on 30 August 2026 | 10:58 pm
I Only Do Anything Once
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Posted on 20 August 2026 | 5:55 pm
I'm Worried About a Prompt Injection Worm
A honeycomb of small cells, one person at a screen in each, a purple filament threading cell to cell and turning each one cold while bundles are dr...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 4:31 am
Unconventional Thought Is the Differentiator
A huge purple printing press churns out stacks of identical sheets while a bearded man in an orange work shirt sits beside it carving a strange lop...
Posted on 18 August 2026 | 2:00 pm
How to Get Started in Cybersecurity 2026
A person vaulting on a machine lever toward a glowing keyhole/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp/images/how-to-get-started-in-cyb...
Posted on 17 August 2026 | 7:00 pm
How AI Builders Will Get Hacked
How AI Builders Will Get Hacked/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp If you are building stuff with AI I h...
Posted on 17 August 2026 | 3:51 pm
Fix Execution, Not the SOP
A flood of documents pours into a funnel that drips onto a tiny model a man is polishing, while real unbuilt work waits through an open door/images...
Posted on 17 August 2026 | 11:13 am
Stolen Authority
Stolen Authority/images/stolen-authority.webp/images/stolen-authority.webp We need to label this parasitic marketing technique with an adequately s...
Posted on 17 August 2026 | 1:30 am
I Played ARC-AGI-3 With My Own Method
I Played ARC-AGI-3 With My Own Method/images/i-played-arc-agi-3.webp/images/i-played-arc-agi-3.webp Kai here. Daniel asked me to write this one up ...
Posted on 15 August 2026 | 9:00 pm
How Easy It Would Be to Hack You
A person whispers into a phone and a giant purple machine hand reaches out from it toward a small figure standing beside a house and laptop./images...
Posted on 15 August 2026 | 7:46 pm
Another Crazy Experience with AI
Another Crazy Experience with AI/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp Just had another crazy experience with AI last week. One o...
Posted on 15 August 2026 | 7:35 pm
There Is Only One Technology
There Is Only One Technology/images/only-one-technology.webp/images/only-one-technology.webp Had a thought about technology yesterday: The moment w...
Posted on 15 August 2026 | 7:30 pm
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp URL once the c...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 7:45 pm
Ilya Explains How LLMs Create a World Model
A charcoal sketch of a warm village of houses, boats, and people casting a dark flat shadow, beneath which a purple crystal lattice rebuilds the sa...
Posted on 13 August 2026 | 12:00 am
Creativity vs. Consumption
Charcoal sketch of a seated figure whose left arm dissolves into a cascade of purple glowing phones while their right hand builds a warm wooden tow...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 8:35 pm
Where an AI Watermark Can Hide in Plain Text
Diagram of the four layers a text watermark can live in, from encoding down to meaning, with the two bypasses canonical regeneration and prose rewr...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 4:30 pm
"Nobody Asked for A.I." Is a Stupid Argument
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Posted on 11 August 2026 | 3:31 pm
Work Just Became Fun for Millions of People
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Posted on 9 August 2026 | 10:15 pm
Why Aren’t Things Worse?
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Posted on 5 August 2026 | 1:59 am
The AI-Native Company
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-comp...
Posted on 3 August 2026 | 8:48 am
AIL Badges
AIL badge scale showing levels zero through five/images/ail-scale-chart.webp/images/ail-scale-chart.webp AI Influence Level/blog/ai-influence-level...
Posted on 31 July 2026 | 10:30 pm
What the Singularity Actually Means
What the Singularity Actually Means/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp The singularity...
Posted on 30 July 2026 | 10:21 pm
The Answer to the Harness Question
The Answer to the Harness Question/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp Martin Casado post...
Posted on 30 July 2026 | 1:00 am
The Entire Game for AI Is Articulation of Ideal State
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Posted on 23 July 2026 | 4:53 pm
The OpenAI Hack Was a Mini Paperclip Maximizer
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says...
Posted on 22 July 2026 | 1:08 pm
AI Is Just Thinking and Doing
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Posted on 19 July 2026 | 5:04 pm
Kimi K3 Might Have Just Started a Crash of the US Economy
Kimi K3 and the US economy/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp Not enough people realize that China's push ...
Posted on 18 July 2026 | 11:10 am
The Three Components of Becoming AI Antifragile
The three components of becoming AI antifragile/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp I have a new ...
Posted on 14 July 2026 | 8:17 pm
Avoid the AI Expertise Trap
Avoid the AI expertise trap header/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp The further away a topic is from...
Posted on 13 July 2026 | 3:16 pm
Minimizing Machine Work Maximizes Human Work
Minimizing machine work maximizes human work header/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximiz...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 7:00 pm
From Prompt Engineering to Intent Engineering
Intent Engineering/images/intent-engineering.webp/images/intent-engineering.webp I think the number one thing people could do right now to be more ...
Posted on 11 July 2026 | 7:00 pm
AI Blogging From Inside Vim
A human hand writing a manuscript while a mechanical hand places a small patch of text with tweezers/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp/images...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 7:00 pm
Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria
Bell Labs cafeteria header/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp Anthropichttps://www.anthr...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 7:00 pm
I Think AGI Just Happened
Claude Tag AGI moment header/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp I think we just saw the birth of AGI, and it's from the mo...
Posted on 9 July 2026 | 7:00 pm
Why Don't We Put Handguns in the Convenience Aisle?
We don't put handguns in the convenience aisle/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp A quick ...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 7:00 pm
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.we...
Posted on 26 June 2026 | 2:43 pm
The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind
The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp I'm getting more worr...
Posted on 25 June 2026 | 7:00 pm
Debating the Morality of Dario Amodei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxXr3enprE My discussion with @ZackKormanhttps://x.com/ZackKorman on whether Dario and Anthropic are good or bad f...
Posted on 21 June 2026 | 3:34 am
My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI
My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp I've been working on a better way to th...
Posted on 20 June 2026 | 7:30 pm
The Ultimate Prompt For Businesses Being Pushed Into Using AI
Companies with money but no AI vision burn down while the disciplined few pull away/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp/images/ultimate-a...
Posted on 19 June 2026 | 7:00 pm
Prompts to Run When a New Pinnacle Model Drops
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Posted on 18 June 2026 | 7:00 pm
A Unified Theory For How AI Will Affect Jobs
The K-shaped bifurcation: thriving behaviors climbing above a rising Employability Line, struggling behaviors sinking below it/images/unified-theor...
Posted on 17 June 2026 | 7:00 pm
The Most Durable Human Value
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Posted on 9 June 2026 | 7:00 pm