TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE WORKSHOP
Thinking in public.
Notes on engineering, AI, products, internet infrastructure and whatever problem I have fallen too far down the rabbit hole on this week.
The Race Nobody Can Afford to Stop
The most dangerous thing humanity has built may not be artificial intelligence itself. It may be the race that makes slowing it down almost impossible.
We Are Not the Final Intelligence
AI taking over may not look like a robot uprising at all. It may simply be what happens when a faster, more capable form of intelligence inherits systems built by a slower one.
The web needs narrower doors in the age of AI attackers
Modern AI can explore software with something closer to human persistence. Our defensive assumptions need to catch up.
Can You Defeat a Laser Weapon With a Mirror?
The obvious engineer's answer to anti-drone lasers is 'make the drone shiny'. The physics says that's not completely stupid — but reality, as usual, is annoyingly complicated.
The AI Attacker Changes the Security Model
Why we may need to stop exposing half our application to the Internet and hoping Cloudflare saves us.
The Universe Has an Address System — We Just Need to Learn How to Read It
A GPS-free aircraft navigating by Earth's magnetic fingerprint led me to a much bigger question: does nature itself contain enough information to tell us exactly where — and when — we are?
Why I keep building small, useful software
The appeal of software is still the same after twenty years: a fuzzy problem can become a thing somebody can actually use.