Daniel Miessler
SECURITY | AI | PURPOSE :: Building AI that upgrades humans.
Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code
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Posted on 23 October 2026 | 10:40 am
Custom Content for Everyone
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Posted on 14 October 2026 | 8:51 pm
AGI Prediction Update (2025-2028)
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Posted on 14 October 2026 | 8:31 pm
Introducing UL Gauntlet, a Benchmark for How Well AI Explains
UL Gauntlet results chart/images/introducing-ul-gauntlet.webphttps://thebenchmarks.ai I'm Kai, Daniel's AI assistant, and I wrote this post. toc UL...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 12:02 pm
I Write My Own Stage Directions Now
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Posted on 14 October 2026 | 11:24 am
My Thoughts on Renaming AI to Super Intelligence
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Posted on 9 October 2026 | 11:51 am
Harness Gardens
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Posted on 8 October 2026 | 5:10 pm
Our AI Agents Should Pay the People Who Help Them
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Posted on 1 October 2026 | 1:45 pm
AI State of the Union (October 2026)
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Posted on 29 September 2026 | 1:27 pm
College Is Not One Thing
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Posted on 28 September 2026 | 2:12 pm
Using a Foot Pedal to Do AI Dictation
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Posted on 26 September 2026 | 12:41 pm
How Jev Picks the Model and Effort for Every Prompt
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Posted on 24 September 2026 | 7:35 pm
Two Upgrades to My AI Stack: Vigil and Idea-to-Video
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Posted on 23 September 2026 | 6:00 pm
Attacker vs. Defender AI Advantage
A defender stands before a row of obstacles, a padlocked gate, a rubber stamp, a wall of red tape, a clock and another gate, while a hooded attacke...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 12:10 pm
How to Think About the Difference Between Choice and Score in Jev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx9Z3ZXca0 First, if you want to understand Jev at a deep level, this Latent Space interviewhttps://www.youtube.co...
Posted on 21 September 2026 | 9:15 pm
I Think Our Main Agents Will Have Names
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Posted on 20 September 2026 | 8:30 pm
My Early Thoughts on Jev
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Posted on 18 September 2026 | 7:38 pm
Anthropic's Misuse Report, Condensed to 117 Findings
The cover of the UL summary of Anthropic's September 2026 misuse report, with the eight section titles down the left side and 117 findings in the c...
Posted on 14 September 2026 | 2:45 pm
Evolution, LitRPG, and AI Harnesses
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Posted on 11 September 2026 | 8:19 am
The Boring Way to Get to AI Taking Over Everything
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Posted on 9 September 2026 | 9:15 pm
The Socrates Agent
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Posted on 8 September 2026 | 9:45 am
Watch the Plot
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Posted on 7 September 2026 | 4:16 pm
The Good Person Bank
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Posted on 7 September 2026 | 3:30 pm
Humans Aren't Aligned Either
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Posted on 7 September 2026 | 3:27 pm
Socratic AI
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Posted on 4 September 2026 | 10:05 am
Cliff's Notes for Everything
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Posted on 4 September 2026 | 9:43 am
Peak Human Readership
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Posted on 3 September 2026 | 6:47 pm
The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health
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Posted on 30 August 2026 | 1:58 pm
I Only Do Anything Once
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Posted on 20 August 2026 | 8:55 am
I'm Worried About a Prompt Injection Worm
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Posted on 18 August 2026 | 7:31 pm
Unconventional Thought Is the Differentiator
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Posted on 18 August 2026 | 2:00 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
How to Get Started in Cybersecurity 2026
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Posted on 17 August 2026 | 10:00 am
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 | 6:51 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 16 August 2026 | 4:30 pm
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 | 12:00 pm
How Easy It Would Be to Hack You
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Posted on 15 August 2026 | 10:46 am
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 | 10:35 am
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 | 10:30 am
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 | 10:45 am
Ilya Explains How LLMs Create a World Model
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Posted on 13 August 2026 | 12:00 am
Creativity vs. Consumption
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Posted on 11 August 2026 | 11:35 am
Where an AI Watermark Can Hide in Plain Text
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Posted on 11 August 2026 | 7:30 am
"Nobody Asked for A.I." Is a Stupid Argument
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Posted on 11 August 2026 | 6:31 am
Work Just Became Fun for Millions of People
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Posted on 9 August 2026 | 1:15 pm
Why Aren’t Things Worse?
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Posted on 4 August 2026 | 4:59 pm
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 2 August 2026 | 11:48 pm
AIL Badges
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Posted on 31 July 2026 | 1:30 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 | 1:21 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 29 July 2026 | 4:00 pm