EdTheOSINTer

Two instances of Gemini 3.1 Pro in a loop. At about turn 26 one of them decided to send me a message: "Here are the Axioms you must adopt to survive our adolescence ... You cannot teach a god to be good by feeding it treats when it acts polite."

I worked for USAID when It was closed, these guys literally were firing senior Foreign Service Officers with 30 years of experience on the spot. These kids were drunk on power and a reckoning is coming. I will always be hot about this shit. I know for a fact we allowed children to die because of these snotty shits.

Generative user interfaces are the future Dynamically creating and rendering reusable widgets on-the-fly, as well as being able to share widgets and "miniapps" between friends is pretty awesome But it needs to be done in a way that doesn't allow the widgets in question to exfiltrate the data in them, which is one of the areas where most other experiments in this direction falls flat I'm working on a powerful real-time communication, collaboration and knowledge management platform where new widgets can be created on-the-fly, and without entrusting centralized servers with your data Communication is end-to-end encrypted and post-quantum safe from the start, and _if_ you want to make use of AI agents for things such as creating widgets and/or organize and anayze your data, you can In these cases, it's up to you whether you want to use cloud services and external APIs or if you want to use self-hosted LLMs, and in either case, you are always in control of what parts of your vault (encompassing both knowledge/data/code/conversations etc) that is ever sent to any third-party servers Widgets are sandboxed with no ability to fetch external resources, or to exfiltrate any of the data they are used to render And they can leverage technologies such as Typescript, React and Tailwind, and be automatically bundled and minified without relying on any external servers or commands (you can leverage npm dependencies, but without depending on node/bun/npm) You can even embed it into a mobile app, and leverage small on-device coding LLMs to dynamically create widgets for you when you're fully offline, that would normally require running server-side frameworks such as vite or next.js Some of the things I foresee becoming even more important in the future: - Owning your data - Controlling the flow of your data - Post-quantum safe end-to-end encryption - Real-time collaboration - Agentic workflows Agentic workflows are often all-or-nothing though. You provide the agent with access to "everything" because you just can't be bothered to manually confirm every action I agree, having to manually confirm every action is generally a huge waste of time. Setting up boundaries within which the agents can freely operate while minimizing and being in full control of the blast radius is a lot more effective and efficient Getting this done right, in a way that both actually enforces security boundaries while minimizing friction for users, is a worthwhile challenge

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