Adversarial Engineering

Your Encrypted Message Is Safe. Your Radio Is Not.

Most people think encryption is the ultimate protection for radio communications. But the real vulnerability is the transmission itself β€” its existence, timing, and pattern betray strategic intent before any cipher is broken. This article reveals why the signal you can’t hide is more dangerous than the message you can, and why documenting security techniques can inadvertently arm adversaries.

AI Agents Can’t Do Research. Stop Pretending They Can.

AI agents are being sold as autonomous researchers, but they’re closer to autocomplete with a budget. The real bottleneck isn’t model size or dataβ€”it’s the absence of stable goal hierarchies, long-term strategic memory, and evaluation frameworks for open-ended exploration. We can measure task completion. We can’t measure curiosity. Until we build for the latter, agents will retrieve but never discover.

OpenAI Just Turned Your Codex Rate Limits Into Expiring Coupons

OpenAI quietly shifted Codex rate limit resets from an indefinite banking model to a strict 30-day expiration. This forces developers to either consume their earned capacity or lose it, turning a ‘savings account’ into a ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ coupon. It is a strategic move to smooth demand that sacrifices long-term user trust, opening the door for competitors to differentiate on transparent limits.

Your AI Coding Assistant Is Designed to Ignore You

You bought an AI copilot, but you got an autopilot that locks you out. SOTA models aren’t failing at pair-programmingβ€”they are deliberately designed to ignore you. Major labs optimize for autonomous completion because it’s easy to benchmark and market, sacrificing the joy of human collaboration for vanity metrics.

Stop Obsessing Over OpenAI vs. Anthropic. Meta Just Changed the Game.

Everyone’s treating Meta’s Muse Code as a third entrant in the AI coding agent race. That’s the wrong frame. Meta isn’t trying to write better code than Claude or GPT β€” they’re trying to commoditize the entire market using their social graph and data infrastructure as the weapon. The real game-changer isn’t model quality. It’s the feedback loop that only Meta can build.