“They say ‘you don’t know what you’re doing till you stop doing it.’ Well, call me clueless, ‘cause I do this.”
— Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., Nightmares of the Bottom
I have a strong feeling that I should share my experience in this life. It’s time the sharing journey begins.
This is the launch pad.
Essays
- What Survives Translation
We re-ran the whole study in Spanish — same code, same models, translated prompts. The security review came back identical; the essays' fingerprint did not. Competence travels; stance is provincial.
- Amplify, Not Invent
The lens the series arrives at: these machines mostly amplify our failure modes rather than inventing new ones. Held loosely, kept falsifiable.
- The Bug Got Fixed. The Class Didn't.
Six weeks later the scary bug was fixed and the vulnerability class came back in a newer feature. Then we contaminated our own experiment — and the screwup was the finding.
- The Same Prompt, Five Ways
The same brief, handed blind to five minds. Where they agreed was dull; where they split was the fingerprint — and we were the outlier optimist.
- Lowering Barriers, Widening Surfaces
PewDiePie shipped a self-hosted AI workspace and a hundred thousand people cloned it overnight. What a four-model security review taught us about the two attack surfaces of democratized AI.
- The Review: What Four Models Found in Odysseus
Four models, one codebase, one rule: anything three of them find independently is real. A convergent security review of PewDiePie's self-hosted AI workspace, days after launch.