UPDATES
Hey! Hope you all are doing well!
LifeOS (previously PAI) 6.x is now live!
Biggest updates:
First thing you’ll notice is we renamed PAI to LifeOS, which we did because it’s a life and work optimization platform, not just a coding harness (but it’s the best coding harness I’ve ever used). This is because context makes everything better, from coding to life and work planning.
Second biggest thing is we now distribute as a Skill! PAI was basically the first general AI Harness, and back then (July 2025) people didn’t have their own. So at that point we’d ship a full
~/.claudedirectory and you’d be good to go. But now everyone has a harness, so LifeOS is designed to enhance / improve it rather than replace it. So you can install it into Hermes, Pi, Codex, whatever. I still live in the Claude Code universe, though.We’ve brought the transition of Current to Ideal State to be more primary in the system. This is the core philosophy of the system. Understanding where you are and where you’re trying to go, which again applies to everything from code to art.
The installer is now AI-native, meaning you just run one command and it will show your AI how to install it for you, doing a much better job of seeing what you have and asking what from LifeOS you want and don’t want to install.
Massive improvements to The Algorithm, Hooks, Skills, and the overall function of the system.
A new LOCAL continuous context gathering system called Conduit that feeds into TELOS to understand what you’re doing during a given day, week, month, etc. It’s built directly into Pulse.
Too many to name…
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One more day of Fable before it goes away!
I recommend you run one or more of these before the deadline!
I also did a video with Network Chuck about them! THE VIDEO
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I think this is probably one of the most important topics right now in AI and business. And it’s quite unexpectedly coming from Alex Karp of Palantir. Basically:
If the enterprise is getting turned into workflows and agents, who is going to control all of that?
What compute will it run on? Local or Cloud?
Where will your data be stored?
What models will run it? Local or Cloud?
He’s basically saying if you blindly trust your company to big AI labs they will end up eating the entire business. They’ll own everything. The compute, the models, your data, and because of that they’ll understand your company and your IP better than anyone at the company.
Absolutely crucial conversation to be having right now. Must watch.
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Had a discussion about tons of different Security / AI topics at Planetscale with my buddies Matt and Gabe on Monday!
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I really don’t understand why we’re making these things. Terrifying. I guess the answer is “because we can”.
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CYBERSECURITY
Pliny released his own AI Attack Stack called T3MP3ST:
Mozilla browsers have a fresh arbitrary-code-execution problem CIS says Mozilla fixed a stack of bugs in Firefox and Thunderbird, and the worst one could let an attacker run code on your machine. CIS ADVISORY
Langflow’s six bugs can hand attackers the keys IBM security researchers found six serious holes in Langflow OSS. One lets strangers run code outright, and others let them dodge auth, reuse keys, and steal data. SECURITYONLINE.INFO ARTICLE
ToddyCat is stealing Gmail with OAuth tokens now They’re hijacking signed-in browser sessions, grabbing OAuth tokens, and walking straight into corporate Gmail without passwords. SECUREREADING ARTICLE
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Every agentic action is authenticated, policy-enforced, inspected for prompt injection and data exfiltration, and logged. See how leading enterprises govern AI at scale.
Favicons are a better attack-surface signal than they look Aaron Ringo shows how a tiny browser icon can map software, spot honeypots, and give you a passive pivot across the internet. BISHOP FOX BLOG ARTICLE
The future of AI in cybersecurity is lopsided AI makes attackers cheaper and defenders pickier. Local models matter most, and the real win is better prioritization, not full automation. MATTEO STRADA POST
Google keeps hitting malicious residential proxy networks Google and the FBI just took down NetNut’s proxy setup and say it was feeding malware, password sprays, and hidden traffic through millions of home devices. GOOGLE CLOUD BLOG
Flock’s cameras are turning American streets into a surveillance net Flock keeps spreading plate readers, AI cameras, and drones while cops misuse them, researchers find holes, and towns discover poles in their yards. TNW ARTICLE
NATIONAL SECURITY
China is meddling in America’s AI fight China is pushing anti-data-center narratives while OpenAI says PRC-linked actors used its models to shape the debate. The piece also says Sanders and AOC accidentally echo some of the same pressure. NATIONAL INTEREST ARTICLE
Army uses AI and robot boats to move supplies around the Pacific The Army is already using AI for supply planning and testing autonomous watercraft that can haul gear between islands and beaches. The bigger fight is whether the law will let unmanned boats enter ports like manned ones. DEFENSE ONE ARTICLE
Russian intelligence keeps going after messaging apps CISA and the FBI say Russian spies are still phishing commercial chat apps, and they’ve got fresh message samples plus mitigations. CISA PSA
U.S. Marines buy robot vehicles to chase drones The Marines are plugging autonomous ground vehicles into MADIS so they can spot, jam, and kill drones from farther out. DEFENCE BLOG ARTICLE
Russia’s drone war is slowing, but the next wave looks nastier Russia is firing fewer drones now, but it’s shifting toward jet-powered models and leaning on worn-out bombers. Ukraine can still swat most of the old stuff. EUROMAIDAN PRESS ARTICLE
Someone on Polymarket dumped $409,000 on Putin stepping down It smells like either insider knowledge or just another weird market gamble. FUTURISM ARTICLE
AI
OpenAI wants the US government to own part of it OpenAI is pitching the White House on a 5% government stake worth about $42 billion. It wants other AI giants to hand over the same cut. Interesting strategic move here. And one that takes us towards something like UBI if these percentages were to be turned into monthly checks out to citizens. DECRYPT ARTICLE
Ex-Anthropic researchers raise $200m for self-improving AI Two ex-Anthropic researchers raised $200 million for Mirendil. They want to sell the AI research loop the big labs keep to themselves. TNW NEWS ARTICLE
AI coding is addictive and engineers are burning out AI tools keep giving tiny rewards, so people stay at their desks longer and get fried. A real concern. It’s like TikTok, but more productive. But it’s still like TikTok. We really need to watch ourselves with this. LEADDEV ARTICLE
We should be scaling RL on forecasting RL on forecasting looks like a better path than just pushing harder on coding and math. It could make models better at planning, advice, and maybe even safer. LESSWRONG POST
TECHNOLOGY
Product roles are turning into five archetypes Boris Cherny splits future team work into prototyper, builder, sweeper, grower, and maintainer. He thinks roles matter more than job titles now. Really like the list, but I think it misses: Seller. For a company it doesn’t matter what you build if you can’t sell it. BORIS CHERNY POST
AI search is split into several different markets now Google still owns the broad search surface, but ChatGPT leads direct assistant usage and referrals hide a lot of the real influence. PERPLEXITY AI MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Cloudflare starts charging AI tools for web access Cloudflare turned its pay-per-crawl idea into a broader payment layer for pages, APIs, and MCP tools. It wants agents to pay tiny fees instead of scraping for free. I'm excited to see this. We've been trying to figure out a micro payments system for a very long time. SECURITYONLINE.INFO ARTICLE
Home networking advice is still stuck in 2019 Most people need wired runs, better switches, and fewer mesh nodes, not a more expensive router. XDA DEVELOPERS ARTICLE
China’s mass-producing humanoid robots that can mimic dead relatives UBTECH’s new U1 robots have silicone skin, emotion reading, and memory. The creepy part is they’re also selling custom replicas of specific people. VIRTUALUNCLE ARTICLE
HUMANS
One of the biggest conversations right now regarding AI is whether AI is taking jobs or adding them. I think the answer is both, and the reasoning is simple:
AI is increasing the talent, intelligence, energy, and/or passion that someone needs to say employed.
So yes, more jobs are being created, and will be created by, AI. But the people who will get those jobs are not the same people who lost them.
Many who were super stable before will be rudderless
Many who weren’t employable before will become employable
Many will simply transition from one type of job to another
Many who were unemployable before will remain so
The most important takeaway though is that this isn’t static!
This isn’t destiny. It’s not “pedigree”. It’s not how rich your parents are, or how good a school you went to. It’s about your total energy you can bring through the combination of creativity, passion, intelligence, talent, mindset, etc.
In other words the things that set us apart as humans.
And this is something we can improve! 🫶🏼
AI that discovers math will explain it better than us Grant Sanderson thinks AI systems will not just find new math, but explain it more cleanly than people can. That would change who gets to understand the hard stuff first. DWARKESH PATEL VIDEO
Your body can build new arteries with exercise Exercise can grow collateral blood vessels around blocked coronary arteries in weeks. Mark Kaplan turns that into a simple case for moving every day. THREAD READER APP POST
ADHD traits with real names This thread names the things ADHD people feel every day, and it makes the chaos easier to spot. THREAD READER APP POST
AI is hitting young workers first Stanford and ADP’s new dashboard says the entry-level hit keeps getting worse, even after the usual excuses fall apart. FORTUNE ARTICLE
IDEAS
Reading the news is the new smoking Adam Mastroianni says news is addictive, warps your sense of reality, and mostly just steals attention from better things. ADAM MASTROIANNI POST
Martha Nussbaum says love gets clearer through pain Maria Popova pulls a thread from Proust to Nussbaum and lands on a hard idea: suffering can reveal what intellect hides. THE MARGINALIAN POST
Theorem proving isn’t the real point of math AI can beat humans at proofs and still miss the part that matters: building concepts people can actually think with. DAVID BESSIS SUBSTACK POST
Success per tokens Work smart more than hard. LLMs, people, and companies all climb the same curve with different budgets. LESSWRONG POST
Sad got turned into a diagnosis factory THREAD READER POST
America should love itself again Henry Oliver says America’s biggest problem is that too many people only see the failures and forget the country still works. HENRY OLIVER POST
Your real value in tech companies is judgment AI tools can do the busywork, but the real edge is knowing what to build, what to trust, and when to push back. UX COLLECTIVE ARTICLE
America gets weaker when teens stop taking chances Teenagers are dating less, drinking less, and hanging out less, and that seems to spill into later marriage and family life. INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES BLOG
Working memory might be the bridge to consciousness Working memory seems to sit right where attention, forgetting, and conscious experience meet. Henry Taylor thinks the overlap may explain why some things feel present and others vanish. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ARTICLE
DISCOVERY
Dayflow turns your Mac into a work journal It records what you actually do, then rewrites your day into a readable timeline and summary. This was so cool that I built my own and it’s now part of LifeOS (called Conduit)! DAYFLOW PRODUCT PAGE
How to read like text is raw material The post says you should stop treating reading like passive intake and start pulling claims, context, and usable ideas out of the page. CASUAL PHYSICS ENJOYER POST
Agentic coding harnesses are just context routers SEMIANALYSIS POST
RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK
Think about how much trouble you might have in your life because you're unwilling to have difficult conversations.
Resentment is the compound interest on difficult conversations you were too afraid to have.
APHORISM OF THE WEEK
What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.They summarize your life in 500-1000 words. People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more. Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work. Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words. You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way. Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
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