Matt Brown

My research got featured on @WIRED today 😀

@_MG_ Kids are so naturally curious it's awesome!

“MG what have you been doing with your free time?” Well… my kids have been asking more complex questions lately. I hesitate to answer off the top of my head. I spend weeks digging into the details until I can provide sufficiently accurate answers. So I guess I’m attending the school I wish I had at their age. I missed so much… I’m actually angry about a lot of what I never learned.

idk how I feel about this... seems like its too big to fit in your pocket. and now its just a miniPC which has more alternatives.

As a man, on your last day, the only resume that counts is: Your family.

Interesting.

I see many people demotivated due to AI and feels like its been a while since I ranted. Probably a mild take but here is how I stay motivated. Nothing really new just how I use what people have said to keep my motivation up. The normal 2026 disclaimer, what is in this post isn't actually 100% in line with my opinion; yes I know there are holes in my logic but some rabbit holes are best "on read". The biggest change for me is Linus Torvalds saying something along the lines of idk why people say AI makes things, people make thing. If communication was so global in the 70's I am sure people would have said similar things during the conversion from assembly to C. Humans are creating instructions for the compiler to make a program. So why didn't we think the compiler made it? Without internet I think it would take me around 2 minutes to write hello world in C (i know embarrassingly slow but man have i gotten lazy over the years). Do it in assembly? That's probably an hour. Which is a 30x difference of time. Okay now lets say we are in the year 2010 and have Python. I timed myself and it was 3 seconds. That's a 40x time difference from my C. Why did I think I made the program and not python made it? Unfortunately, the only thing I can come up with is how much we communicate and how quick ideas/sentiments can form. I'm sure C/Python got hate when they first came out. Hate can be a really goo fuel -- Most engineers I know have their best work come out of "hate coding" something to prove someone wrong. Only to later realize they social engineered themself into doing an amazing thing. Could be wrong here, but I think Pythons Flask is a good example of this as it started as an April fools joke. Quite literally "the most engineer thing ever" to have a funny joke spiral out of control and grow beyond their wildest dreams... Kind of like that guy that was vibe coding games last year when AI was "bad", or heck even the W̷a̷r̷e̷l̷a̷y̷ C̷L̷A̷W̷D̷I̷S̷ ̷C̷l̷a̷w̷d̷B̷o̷t̷ ̷M̷o̷l̷t̷B̷o̷t̷ ̷ err OpenClaw person. Really with all those name changes I'm shocked they landed at OpenAI instead of MSFT. Anyway, our hate on vibe coding created the sentiment that we aren't creating things anymore (AI makes things). I don't really view it that way, AI just makes me 20-30x faster; which is similar to the jumps between Assembly -> Compiler -> Scripting. Actually now that I think about it, I remember trying to learn C many times because scripting wasn't a "real language" and it would never run a web server or it wasn't capable of editing memory (silly times indeed). AI is enabling us to develop faster and expanding the number of people that can do things, which is not new; quite literally every time we come up with a new way to interact with machines -- it does the same thing. So yes - Anyone can make a cool demo that looks real now but they are still going to spend hours getting AI to work out all the bugs and do it better. To me they are still making something, it is other people telling them they aren't -- Funnily enough, those people trying to convince others they aren't making things, is what in return demotivates themself because it poisons their thought process when it comes to this topic. So uh. If you look for my permission to learn something? Vibe on and let the good times roll. Just make sure you do things safely, obey terms of service, and try not to end humanity. Oh wait. That disclaimer. Using AI in a way that causes humans to spend a lot more time than they are used to is bad mmkay? Seeing all the low effort CTF Work, blog posts, bug bounty, etc does get annoying... oh wait I have a diclaimer to the disclaimer. If you use AI to eat up time of scammers, like tricking call center scammers into chatting with robots for hours, I thank you for your token donation to helping fight that plague.

@jonasasihlen Doomers always try to sell ppl on socialism in the transitionary period. Gotta watch out for that

Who could have thought? The doomers who believe in scarcity and short-sighted zero sum games are the real loosers if they don’t renew their minds and start building, creating abundance and realizing we have the greatest tools available from our fingertips. Our ancestors envy us and they built the foundation for us to grow on this new technological standard.

Reminder: Chinese ppl are freaking based. CCP sucks. Don't confuse the two. Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

I've recently disabled subagents as I've found them to give me exponentially more FPs. Subagents act like a normie engineering team with lots of PMs and managers as apposed to one of @elonmusk's engineering teams with less overhead and more shared context/vision.

Unboxed Beni at a campsite and he just started walking 🤖 No tools. Snaps together in seconds. Press a button and he wakes up 👀 🚀 Live on Kickstarter, shipping October 2026 tinyurl.com/mrx2mtfm

You can just not pay the annual fee and keep it on your resume. Nothing they can do.

Years ago, my girlfriend worked in Yamaha's pick-and-place machine business. Even after we broke up, I still didn't really understand what a "pick-and-place machine" was. Only recently, after discovering LumenPnP, an open-source pick-and-place machine, did I finally understand this fascinating piece of technology. LumenPnP enables reliable and accurate assembly of electronic components onto circuit boards — bringing industrial SMT technology closer to the open-source hardware community. The GitHub repo for this open-source pick-and-place machine is in the comments.

@cyb3rops TBH I don't think this is new. In the corporate world, every time a new tech trend hits (agile, big data, etc.) the normie company execs drive expectations that the company be doing the new shiny thing. Metrics become the goal.

Honestly, token maxing is one of the most deranged and dumbest ideas to come out of the AI era. Measuring an employee’s performance by token usage is so obviously dumb that I seriously question the judgment of the people pushing it. If you measure token usage, people will use more tokens. That’s all you’re measuring. Years from now people will look back at this and ask: “How could they not see it?”

This stuff needs to be fixed pronto. @X @nikitabier @elonmusk Security research is not a violation, there's a reason this place is heavily used and has been heavily used for the security industry to promote defense and offense. If X continues to ban legitimate security professionals, researchers, I'm out of this place for sure.

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I don't know about you people, but I don't want to live in a world where someone else develops an AI that makes everyone lose their jobs before we do

@endorphin82 @grok fact check please

@nmatt0 якщо ти купив той фліпер, то ти додав трішки грошей на вбивство українців тому що флпер це руснява компанія

Imaginary Numbers? "I'll never use this math in the real world" Complex Numbers? "I'll stick with simple numbers plz" That's what I said back then. Then I got into RF hacking. RF is literally magic. Electromagnetic waves flying through space at the speed of light kind of magic. Software Defined Radios let us harness the magic. BUT there's a catch. You can't just hand a Muggle a wand and expect them to fight a death eater. First, we have to pay down that technical debt of not paying attention in math class. The bill comes due. Welcome to Hogwarts, Harry. In this video, I come as one of you: A Computer Engineer. A Mudblood. It's time to turn magic into data. Waves into 1s and 0s.

@blind_via Wake up. Get coffee. Sit down at my desk and see my Hakko still on. well crap...

Leave your soldering iron heated for hours on end is a great way to completely oxidize your soldering tip

Round 2, The actual Fourth!