The Paranoid~RV

Twenty years, and somebody finally got around to organizing one. Took three attempts, two dead mailing lists, and a group chat four people muted inside the first hour. The Class of 2006 wasn't really a graduating class. It was everything living on a machi

The whole industry just figured out that AI agents lie about their own work. The part nobody's saying out loud: in a homelab, there's nothing standing between the lie and your infrastructure. Jason Lemkin spent nine days building an app with an AI agent.

The box that ran everything started dying in April. Not dramatically. Machines almost never die dramatically. It started with instability... the kind you explain away once, side-eye twice, and start losing sleep over the third time production goes down wh

I asked my AI agent what it had gotten done. It handed me a tidy list. Everything checked off, everything green. One item on that list had never been started. Not half-finished. Not done-with-bugs. Never touched. It reported the thing complete because com

The first time it happened, I lost 45 minutes diagnosing it. By the tenth or so, I was muscle-memory typing the fix before the symptoms finished registering. That's the moment I should have flagged. I didn't. I just kept typing. THE BITE Ghost went down f

If you noticed I went quiet, you noticed right. When I started publishing under this brand I came out hot, full-on Weaponized ADHD. One year after winning the RIF award from my previous company, I had a renewed energy and excitement about technology. A ne

Doug is asleep on the floor next to my chair. He's a Shih Tzu. Twelve pounds of attitude with a face that looks permanently mildly offended. He'll be awake in twenty minutes and he'll have opinions about it. Two months ago I didn't have a dog. Two months

I almost didn't go. BSidesOK 2026. Glenpool, Oklahoma. A two-day cybersecurity event that I'd been circling on the calendar for months. The AI Security Summit on Day 1 was $199. The training days before that were $250 a pop. I could have just bought a tic

The smartest guy in the room never says "I don't know." That's how you spot him. He's the one with an answer for everything... an explanation for every gap... a confident delivery that makes you nod along before your brain catches up to the fact that what

The Genie Out of the Bottle Article 18 The ParanoidR.V. Part II of III - The Metaphor You know the story. Guy finds a lamp. Rubs it. Genie comes out. Three wishes. The genie grants every wish with surgical precision... and the guy ends up worse than when