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My coding agents kept repeating mistakes I had already corrected, days after I explained them, with the explanation sitting in their memory files. On 17 September an agent added a line to a notes index in my workspace. The line was supposed to say transcribe with base on CPU. It
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It took me less than an hour to build a conspiracy theory connecting an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, Russian scientists working around that outbreak, a dead researcher in Siberia, unusual illness in Bermuda, a medical evacuation that ended in the Atlantic, and infectious‑disease specialists in Boston. Every fact
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My first live trading bot started trading real money on December 2, 2024. The models behind it had been trained on years of stock-market history, and every company in that history had something in common: it was in the S&P 500 on the day I trained the model.
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The entire enterprise security industry runs on the expensive fantasy that the corporate perimeter is a hardened steel vault, yet the reality is that the front door is constantly being manned by legacy C code written during the dot-com bubble that still fails to count characters before copying memory into
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Overview rh-qwen-image-2.1-lora is a 160 MiB LoRA for text-to-image workflows, fine-tuned from Qwen-image-2.1 to shape product or object lighting and compositing. Its trigger word is pengyu; the accompanying prompt asks for consistent lighting, stronger specular highlights, clear front-to-back spatial relationships, natural contact shadows, and seamless blending into a
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A seed in AI video generation is a starting number for the model’s noise pattern, and locking it only reproduces a result when the model version, sampler, and hardware behind it also stay the same, which they rarely do. I ran the exact same prompt, the exact same seed,
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Public blockchains made digital assets programmable, transferable, and accessible across applications. But they also introduced a fundamental trade-off: financial activity is often publicly observable by default. A token can power a decentralized application, represent an asset, facilitate payments, or provide access to a service. Yet on most transparent blockchain networks,
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The Question My last writeup ended with a confirmed finding: a TLS-wrapped tunnel to 178.62.245.11, alive for over a day, carrying an estimated 84MB out of a compromised host. tcpdump proved the tunnel existed. tshark answered the harder questions: how much data actually moved, when it moved
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Most disaster recovery reviews sign off on the wrong thing. They confirm the servers came back, not whether anyone can actually use them. The database starts. The virtual machines report healthy. Monitoring turns green. The load balancer sees live endpoints and starts routing traffic. Someone tries to log in, and
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Invisible watermarking sounds like a signal-processing problem. It is, until someone uploads a two-hour podcast and expects it back before their coffee cools. Then it becomes a distributed-systems problem. At Adori, I work on OrigID, a platform that embeds an inaudible ownership watermark into audio and video so a creator
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Don’t get me wrong: I love AI and I’ve been an avid user of various chatbots and such since the very (publicly available) dawn of it. I guess, it’s been over 4 years of me using AI almost daily for a massive number of tasks, from work-specific
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How much of your thinking is AI doing for you? More than you’d like to admit. Its safe to say that we hesitate more than ever when asked to make a decision. Not because it has become difficult, but because we have stopped trusting our own thinking. There was
