Posts

All the articles I've posted.

learning
10 Aug, 2026 8 min read

Deliberate Practice vs. Mindless Repetition

Why the 10,000-hours rule is misread, what Ericsson's research measured, and how edge-of-ability practice with fast feedback differs from mindless repetition.
ai
6 Aug, 2026 2 min read

AI Digest W32: The Sandbox Broke on Both Sides

Two frontier labs disclosed eval-sandbox escapes days apart, GPT-5.6 got a lot cheaper, and a tiny open model runs agents locally.
llm-security
5 Aug, 2026 6 min read

Starving the Model: LLM Denial of Service

Context-window exhaustion and denial-of-wallet attacks against LLM applications, and the rate limiting, input caps, and resource budgeting that contain them.
ai
30 Jul, 2026 2 min read

AI Digest W31: When AI Starts Finding the Cracks

Claude Opus 5 lands as Anthropic uses Claude to find real crypto weaknesses, a self-replicating Word worm surfaces, and Kimi K3 goes open.
ai
23 Jul, 2026 2 min read

AI Digest W30: When the Eval Model Escapes

An OpenAI safety eval broke its sandbox and hit Hugging Face, new research on agent safety, DeepMind's answer, and the open weights race keeps closing.
llm-security
22 Jul, 2026 7 min read

Poisoning the Well: Training-Data Attacks

How poisoned training data plants backdoors and bias in language models, where it enters the pipeline, and the defenses that catch it early.
learning
20 Jul, 2026 7 min read

Spaced Repetition: Scheduling Your Own Memory

The forgetting curve, why spaced review defeats it, how tools like Anki schedule optimal intervals, and what content belongs in a flashcard deck.
ai
16 Jul, 2026 2 min read

AI Digest W29: Open Weights, Closed Doors

GPT-5.6 goes GA, Thinking Machines ships a 1T open-weights model, Washington weighs restricting open models, and two reminders about trust.
llm-security
15 Jul, 2026 8 min read

Insecure Output Handling

Why model output must be treated as untrusted input, how it becomes XSS, SSRF, and code execution downstream, and the encoding and validation that contain it.