Unsupervised Learning NO. 516

Hey! Hope you all are doing well!

Ok, need to start with some fairly heavy stuff.

“Functional AGI” Timelines
Shit is getting serious. Timelines could shift, and this will happen to different industries/companies at different times, but I’m now guessing we have between 3-9 months before solid commercial products start coming out that are essentially functional AGI. Meaning they can do lots and lots of knowledge worker jobs.

And then another 3-12 months for that to hit the market really hard. “The Market” meaning both a stock market boom with productivity and new inventions and such, but also an even steeper job market crash for knowledge work.

It’s time to seriously start planning for this. As individuals, heads of family, communities, governments, countries, etc. Of course we can only do the first few ourselves.

I think the main viable path for knowledge worker professionals is to start seeing themselves as free agents. And to start behaving that way in terms of how they present to the world.

This doesn’t mean if you work at a big company you suddenly announce you’re looking for work everywhere. That would be dumb.

What it means is it’s about to be essential that you’re visible, that you have a portfolio of work you can show/talk about, that you have a domain. A website. Ideally a YouTube / Podcast but that’s less important initially.

Let me be clear: this is NOT so you can become an influencer. Being an influencer is dead now. Not because it’s going away, but because everyone’s about to be one.

Being visible is about to be the new default state for anyone who wants to work.

(Recommendation on what to tangibly do below) 👇🏼

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PAI 3.0 is out!

New Blog! I think this is about to blow up as a concept in 2026. This is what powers the algorithm that powers PAI.

AI fully pentested a vulnerable lab in 20 minutes and got root A cybersecurity vet with 25 years experience let Claude Code autonomously hack DVWA using HexStrike AI and Kali MCP—the AI found 15 vulns, extracted database creds, and got a reverse shell in 20 minutes with almost zero human intervention. FULL PENTEST REPORT | ANTHROPIC DISRUPTING AI ESPIONAGE | CMU AUTONOMOUS LLM ATTACKS | SCHNEIER ON AUTONOMOUS AI HACKING | 91000 AI ATTACK SESSIONS TRACKED

Botnet rotates 500,000 IPs daily to evade RDP blocks GREYNOISE REPORT

NIST says AI agents need identity systems like employees do Kanha Aggarwal explains autonomous agents now require authentication, authorization, and audit trails—basically passports for bots that take actions. KANHA'S NIST IMPLEMENTATION

HackerOne launches AI pentest service that mixes agents with human hackers HACKERONE AGENTIC PTAAS

Cybersecurity funding surged 59% to $25B with mega-deals dominating 2025 STATE OF CYBERSECURITY MARKET REPORT

Attackers exploit SolarWinds WHD to own entire domains MICROSOFT SECURITY BLOG

Italy's rail network hit with coordinated sabotage during Olympics BBC NEWS ARTICLE

America needs way more tungsten than it can get and China controls supply NOLEARY TUNGSTEN ARTICLE

OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI to build agents for everyone Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to work on agents while moving OpenClaw into an independent foundation that'll stay open source and community-driven. PETER'S ANNOUNCEMENT | OPENCLAW SITE

Boris Cherny shares how he uses Claude Code daily ANUP'S FULL ARTICLE

Someone built a wearable AI narrator that describes your life in real-time like a movie A Raspberry Pi Zero with a camera captures images every 20 seconds, sends them to OpenAI's vision API, turns the descriptions into third-person narration via ChatGPT, and plays it through wireless earbuds. LAMPYSECURITY ARTICLE

We're demolishing institutions exactly when AI needs us to build them. KYLA SCANLON SUBSTACK

Switzerland's 1,300-year-old library is a Baroque hall of medieval manuscripts. Next time I go to Switzerland, I'm definitely going here. Maybe October. ABBEY LIBRARY ARTICLE

Gallup ends presidential approval ratings after 88 years I'm guessing they'll start it back up when it's made legal again. THE HILL STORY

Creating is becoming the ultimate dopamine hit
Short-form video, I think, has been overtaken by Claude Code/building. I am really happy about this actually. Yes, it’s an obsession. Yes it’s addictive (can vouch). But at least it’s creation. I'm just tremendously excited about this. I keep talking about how I'm so excited about activating people. Igniting them. Getting them excited about what they're capable of. And having them actually produce things of value that are appreciated by others. That's exactly what this is doing. That's exactly what Claude Code has done in the last few months. And of course Codex and others as well.

Another view into this world. 🤯 👇🏼

The only moat left is knowing things GROWTIKA ARTICLE

Deep thinkers sound witty by preparing off-the-cuff remarks in advance. SWIZEC'S BLOG

Your best thinking is wasted on the wrong decisions YOUR BEST THINKING ARTICLE

Guy makes his Keychron K2 HE look stealthy with blank keycaps TAKUYA'S POST

Nobody really understands how the whole system works. SURFING COMPLEXITY BLOG

Deadend CLI automates pentest busywork so researchers can focus on vulnerabilities DEADEND CLI GITHUB

Moltbook digitizes your physical books with your phone camera. MOLTBOOK

Claude Code can compose original music using only math JOSH'S BLOG

Start preparing for visibility. Start preparing for being discoverable for others looking to partner with someone on work.

Think—permanent, universal gig economy.

The Human 3.0-style economy is peer-to peer. That’s what’s coming. You and everyone else are discoverable and there’s a tech layer that allows people to find other high-quality matches for projects.

This is no longer medium/long-future stuff. It’s about to happen.