Daniel Miessler

I feel like China is becoming Private Equity for countries and continents.

I have been thinking about this since 2016 when I wrote the crappy book but great article, The Real Internet of Things, which I've now put online.

I think we in Cybersecurity have largely failed to show its value to the busines over the last decades.

OpenAI and Google have more than a model problem when competing with Anthropic.

We've forgotten that companies have never wanted to hire anyone in the first place

This is another brilliantly written and highly misguided essay by Cory Doctorow.

I'm not the type who brags, but I have to brag about this.

Dr.

I was recently going insane trying to figure out why everything on my Mac was DeathGod slow.

I want to respond to my buddy Joseph Thacker's blog post about whether Prompt Injection is a vulnerability. josephthacker.com Prompt Injection Isn't a Vulnerability (Most of the Time) Prompt injection is almost never the root cause of AI vulnerabilities—t…

I want to respond to this blog post that's arguing that prompt injection strings are essentially zero-days that we should not share with attackers. disesdi.substack.com AI Red Teaming Has An OPSEC Problem Don't buy, invest in, or pay for a course about 'AI

AI is getting so good now (at the end of 2025) that I now have a new, primary recommendation going into 2026: Think very carefully about where you get help from AI.

Nano Banana Pro has shown me a type of AI dystopia I hadn't thought of before.

The Four Tiers (Each One Smarter Than The Last) Tier 1: WebFetch - Start Simple Tier 2: cURL with Complete Browser Headers Tier 3: Browser Automation - Full JavaScript Execution Tier 4: Bright Data MCP - Professional Infrastructure The Bright Data MCP Too…

This song captures extraordinarily well why arguments about AI understanding are completely misguided and empty.

I'm annoyed by all the hate against the em dash.

We frequently hear that we have a data scarcity problem in AI.

The three-tier hierarchy that structures my Personal AI Infrastructure

I've had several thoughts on the Karpathy and Dwarkesh conversation that took place in late October 2025.

Andrej Karpathy came on Dwarkesh's podcast recently, and I have a number of thoughts.

One of the most surprising things I've ever learned is that novelty and attention extend your lifespan.

⚖️ Or maybe 99-1.

There's a really cool concept that I always come back around to, which is the oscillation in life between "explore" and "exploit."

I did a short post (and a video) about how AI shouldn't be thought of as a bubble because a bubble is a false belief that nobody will believe once it crashes and burns.

Here's an interesting frame I'm messing with.

I keep hearing that world models are the way forward for AI.

So here's what I've been thinking about lately.

We lost our common frames, and the ability to tell the difference between disagreement and hate