For the past two years I’ve worked on a cybersecurity platform for enterprises. They way I work is that I use GNU Nano to write […]
The Creative Curse of Language Models
A recent peer reviewed study of the words we use and the ideas we express found that texts aided with AI sounded more creative, but […]
Who Controls Your Security Data When AI Enters the Room?
After experiencing a take-over of an employee account by hackers, we faced a set of critical questions to answer. Could we rely on humans reading […]
Artificial Intelligence: A model idiot?
In the movie Zoolander (2001), Derek reads a headline that hurts him precisely because he can’t understand it: “Derek Zoolander: A model idiot?” In 2026, […]
The Future of AI May Be Running on an Old ThinkPad
You often hear about artificial intelligence as if it only exists inside enormous data centers. Newscasters love to show rows of GPUs using massive amounts […]
Who Controls Your Security Data When AI Enters the Room?
Considering the news lately about how fast AI is moving, there’s no doubt that many organizations want to add AI to their cybersecurity capabilities.The easiest […]
No Magic: A brief review of Anthropic’s Mythos
Do you own a robot vacuum cleaner? Good. Then you’ll understand my take on Anthropic’s “Project Glasswing.” In short, Anthropic has created a new LLM […]
From Vibe Coding to Buddy-Coding: A Practical Model for Staying in Control of AI-Assisted Development
“Never outsource understanding to prompts. Use AI to sharpen your thinking.” There’s a growing narrative in dev: “Describe the app. Let AI generate the code. Ship […]
From Factory Relocation to AI Hype: Why Infrastructure Still Wins
In 1994, while finishing my last year at Penn State, I learned that a neighboring consultant was tasked with dismantling the massive Corning glass plant […]
Why security logs don’t behave like language (and never will.)
Large language models (LLMs) excel at parsing and generating human language. Security logs, however, are not language; they’re behavioral exhaust, a compact record of machine events. […]