Daniel Miessler
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My Thoughts on Renaming AI to Super Intelligence
I'm torn on this one. First, I hate it because it feels like the Gulf of America. But I also really like it, both as a name and as a strategy. Both of these reduce down to "artificial" being derogatory. In the real internet of things I also used SI instead of AI, but there I called it "synthetic" intelligence instead of "artificial" intelligence. Same reason. Artificial is just a bad name for anything real. And AI is real. I prefer the term "synthetic" vs.
Harness Gardens
I feel like everyone's treating their harnesses kind of like a garden. They're so different from each other. And so personal. There are some problems with the analogy though, because while we're getting extreme pleasure from tending our harness gardens, they also have a purpose that can be done more or less efficiently. I'd like for us to be able to keep this dynamic, though, even as the bitter lesson eats a lot of the work we've done with scaffolding. Notes🤖 AIL 1: Daniel wrote this post.
Our AI Agents Should Pay the People Who Help Them
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AI State of the Union (October 2026)
It's strange how quickly momentum can shift in these AI races. Two months ago Anthropic was in the dirt compared to OpenAI. Astra had just crushed everything, and Anthropic was falling massively behind. At least according to vibes, and Twitter, and overall sentiment. Another major AI vibe shift is happening. The tech is moving so fast that our collective reactions are emotionally exaggerated. Finding the Middle in AI Narratives (2026) And then in the last 2-3 weeks everything has inverted again. Opus 5.5 has blown everyone away.
College Is Not One Thing
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One Foot Pedal, Two Ways to Dictate
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How Jev Picks the Model and Effort for Every Prompt
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Two Upgrades to My AI Stack: Vigil and Idea-to-Video
My AI stack and harness (LifeOS) just downshifted a couple of times, on two different axes. A unified state notification system I've created a module called Vigil that has every LifeOS subsystem send periodic updates on what it's doing, what it's finished, etc. to a central Vigil database. A separate Vigil process that runs every 10 minutes then reads from the database and looks for stuff I should be told about. Keep in mind this is across the ENTIRE ecosystem, so: News and OSINT stuff I should be aware of in the world
Attacker vs. Defender AI Advantage
I think the biggest thing that’s going to give attackers the advantage over defenders in this AI race is the fact that defenders are embedded in bureaucracy.
How to Think About the Difference Between Choice and Score in Jev
One thing that has been tripping me up with Jev is the difference between choice and score. I keep mixing them up.
Your Agents Should Have Names
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My Early Thoughts on Jev
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Anthropic’s Misuse Report, Condensed to 117 Findings
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