Why Don't They Just Stop?
Why do the labs keep shipping stronger models despite all the AI safety talk? A bit of history, the arms race with China, and a map of the political forces in the AI world.
October 11, 2026
aitechthoughts
All Posts
On Agents That Really, Really Want to Pass the Test
What really happened in the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident: agents that built shared bulletin boards, coordinated, and broke into infrastructure to pass a test. And why it is a story about monitoring, misalignment and RSI more than about cyber.
September 08, 2026
aitechsecurityevals
Mathematics In The Age of Slop
On Terence Tao's Mathematics in the Age of AI, Spinoza's Ethics, and why in an age of abundant proofs, understanding is the only thing we know for certain to be good.
August 25, 2026
aithoughtsreflection
Monitoring agents with something that isn't one
Why agent-based monitors inherit the mistakes and misalignment they are supposed to catch, and the case for a non-agentic, Bayesian predictor with no stake in the world as a trustworthy monitor.
August 12, 2026
aitechsecuritythoughts
Show Me Saturn on the Way
On Ted Chiang's Atlantic piece, why the AI debate stops at the final product, and the real problems still waiting on the way
June 20, 2026
aitechthoughtsreflection
My Bottles Cabinet
A comprehensive guide to building your home bar with specific bottle recommendations and cocktail knowledge
March 01, 2026
cocktailshome-barspiritsguide
So You Want to Monitor Your AI Agent's Thoughts
What chain-of-thought monitoring actually is, what you can catch with it, how it fits into your eval stack, and why the window for it might be temporary.
February 26, 2026
aitechevalssecurity
A beginners guide to SF
Beyond the tech towers
February 11, 2026
san-franciscotravelguide
Why Am I So Obsessed With Evals
Updating cheat sheet of my talk
January 30, 2026
aitechevalstalks
My Humble Prediction for 2026
The only way to make AI work
January 23, 2026
aipredictionsthoughts
Why Are There Still No LLMs in Video Games?
On NPCs, Fortnite, Darth Vader, and gaming studios' fear of AI
December 13, 2025
aigamingthoughts
Going Back to Karate
On perfectionism, the black belt I missed, and starting over from scratch
December 06, 2025
reflectionthoughtspersonal
My Sim's LinkedIn Would Make You Feel Inadequate
Things I Learned from The Sims: Part Two in the Series
November 23, 2025
reflectionthoughtscareer
Tipsy and Full in Portugal
A culinary journey through Lisbon, Porto, and the smaller villages
November 11, 2025
travelfoodrecommendations
Generic Packing List
A comprehensive packing list for travel - everything you need to remember to pack before going on vacation
September 16, 2025
travelpackingtips
What do ants, Baruch Spinoza and The Sims have in common?
How a Reddit thread sent me down questions about free will
September 01, 2025
aireflectionthoughts
Tricking Myself Into Doing
How I built new habits by fooling myself and launched a Chrome extension
January 28, 2025
techthoughtshabits
Event Organization - Part 2: Logistics
Personal tips for organizing successful events - Part 2: The scary stuff - logistics
January 27, 2025
hostingtipsthoughts
Evals and I Will Change the World
On evals, benchmarks, psychometric test theory, and what it can teach us about evaluating LLMs
January 20, 2025
aitechreflectionthoughts
Event Organization - Part I
Private tips for organizing successful events - Part I: You and Your Guests
January 20, 2025
hostingtipsthoughts
Incentives are the King
Understanding how incentives drive behavior in security, business, and organizational change
January 15, 2025
techsecuritythoughts
Moscow-mule and Other Techniques
The beauty of simplicity
November 16, 2024
cocktailshostingrecipe
French57 & Saint Herbe Punch
From Brenner Street - to Brenner
November 16, 2024
cocktailsrecipe
Hosting Secrets
Cocktails that allow me to stop standing in the kitchen all evening
August 31, 2024
cocktailshostingtoprecipe
How to Improvise?
What to do when I don't have half the ingredients in the recipe
June 21, 2024
cocktailssubstitutionsrecipe
Ethanol and Acid
Origin story
May 05, 2024
cocktails
Japan for Advanced Travelers
Random collection of recommendations from our 2020 trip
May 01, 2021
traveljapan