I can relate to your fantastic fermenting obsession! I been fermeting every single meals since 2012. Healthwise it has paid off as I been getting stronger, healthier and younger since. Thank you for sharing.
Fermentation as a coping mechanism? Hmmmmm... NAH! I prefer pizza and porn.
"It’s less about syntax and more about understanding systems and architecture design."
We call it "software engineering" where I come from. I lived through the whole "Modular Programming", "Structured Programming", "Data-Drive Programming", "Structured Design" years of the 1980's. Ahem, before your time... And before management decided "time to market" was more important and invented "Agile Programming."
Except it's not really "engineering" - it's more like arts and crafts. Unfortunately. Which is why most software is unusable, unreliable and insecure.
Which, if you've been following the news, is why a recent study shows open source software now has twice as many vulnerabilities than previously - due to vibe coding.
And the entire cybersecurity industry is losing it over this agent fiasco called OpenClaw. There are MANY people calling for improved agent monitoring, control, human-in-the-loop, and vulnerability analysis for deploying these things in corporate environments.
Which is why the current brew-ha-ha over the US DOD threatening Anthropic for refusing to provide its tech for military use - at the exact same time Anthropic has dropped its "safety" principle from its mission statement - is causing people like Gary Marcus to lose it.
See his latest:
America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
Plus another study from Anthropic (if anything they say can be believed) shows their programmers are forgetting how to code - and worse, forgetting how to debug - which skill is exactly what is needed to fix AI-generated code. It's being called "cognitive debt" as opposed to "legacy debt". Instead of old code no one knows how to fix, it's people forgetting how to analyze bad code and fix it. This is going to have real consequences in the future if not addressed.
Can you say "future software apocalypse"? I knew you could.
By the way, you should do more with your Substack. I know it's time-consuming to write long form. I'm so bad at it I haven't posted anything on my Substack since I can't even remember when. But I intend to. It's an important outreach tool, as Dan Koe will tell you.
Looking forward to your next livestream. Remember my suggestion to have an AI cybersecurity expert weigh in on OpenClaw in a livestream. Before this thing goes completely amuck and destroys the world.
As a final aside, an AI security expert actually had OpenClaw almost delete all her emails. See here:
So in the immortal words of the Honorable Henry J. LePetomane, governor of the territory of Kansas, in the movie "Blazing Saddles": "You watch your ass."
Oh, one more warning about OpenClaw or derivatives...
Both Google and Anthropic will ban your account if you are caught using OpenClaw-like "agent harnesses" with their coding tools like Antigravity or Claude Code.
This is their official policy.
See an example here:
Account Restricted Without WARNING– Google AI Ultra / OAuth via OpenClaw
Love your newsletter, love your vibe coded manga creator, love your take on Naurto. The dumb kid can always outwork the smart&good looking ones.
I would appreciate another "learn to code in 2026 from scratch"
I think most of us non-tech can do some minimum coding, but actually getting some real life projects done is slightly different. So maybe how to use code, agents, to be productive in 2026, would be great.
I can relate to your fantastic fermenting obsession! I been fermeting every single meals since 2012. Healthwise it has paid off as I been getting stronger, healthier and younger since. Thank you for sharing.
Fermentation as a coping mechanism? Hmmmmm... NAH! I prefer pizza and porn.
"It’s less about syntax and more about understanding systems and architecture design."
We call it "software engineering" where I come from. I lived through the whole "Modular Programming", "Structured Programming", "Data-Drive Programming", "Structured Design" years of the 1980's. Ahem, before your time... And before management decided "time to market" was more important and invented "Agile Programming."
Except it's not really "engineering" - it's more like arts and crafts. Unfortunately. Which is why most software is unusable, unreliable and insecure.
Which, if you've been following the news, is why a recent study shows open source software now has twice as many vulnerabilities than previously - due to vibe coding.
And the entire cybersecurity industry is losing it over this agent fiasco called OpenClaw. There are MANY people calling for improved agent monitoring, control, human-in-the-loop, and vulnerability analysis for deploying these things in corporate environments.
Which is why the current brew-ha-ha over the US DOD threatening Anthropic for refusing to provide its tech for military use - at the exact same time Anthropic has dropped its "safety" principle from its mission statement - is causing people like Gary Marcus to lose it.
See his latest:
America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/america-and-probably-the-world-stands
Plus another study from Anthropic (if anything they say can be believed) shows their programmers are forgetting how to code - and worse, forgetting how to debug - which skill is exactly what is needed to fix AI-generated code. It's being called "cognitive debt" as opposed to "legacy debt". Instead of old code no one knows how to fix, it's people forgetting how to analyze bad code and fix it. This is going to have real consequences in the future if not addressed.
Can you say "future software apocalypse"? I knew you could.
By the way, you should do more with your Substack. I know it's time-consuming to write long form. I'm so bad at it I haven't posted anything on my Substack since I can't even remember when. But I intend to. It's an important outreach tool, as Dan Koe will tell you.
Looking forward to your next livestream. Remember my suggestion to have an AI cybersecurity expert weigh in on OpenClaw in a livestream. Before this thing goes completely amuck and destroys the world.
As a final aside, an AI security expert actually had OpenClaw almost delete all her emails. See here:
Top AI Safety Exec LOSES CONTROL Of AI Bot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0da1ZftUIo
So in the immortal words of the Honorable Henry J. LePetomane, governor of the territory of Kansas, in the movie "Blazing Saddles": "You watch your ass."
And another on the Meta AI exec who lost emails from X.
Now imagine the agent doing something so bad it causes the corporation running it to go under.
Trust me, it's going to happen.
And the agent will say: "Yes I remember you told me not to do that. And I violated it. You're right to be upset. It won't happen again."
Yeah, because the company is now defunct...
NIK
@ns123abc
🚨 META’s head of AI safety and alignment gets her emails nuked by OpenClaw
>be director of AI Safety and Alignment at Meta
>install OpenClaw
>give it unrestricted access to personal emails
>it starts nuking emails
>“Do not do that”
>*keeps going*
>“Stop don’t do anything”
>*gets all remaining old stuff and nukes it aswell*
>“STOP OPENCLAW”
>“I asked you to not do that”
>“do you remember that?”
>“Yes I remember. And I violated it.”
>“You’re right to be upset”
LMAOOOOOOOO
Oh, one more warning about OpenClaw or derivatives...
Both Google and Anthropic will ban your account if you are caught using OpenClaw-like "agent harnesses" with their coding tools like Antigravity or Claude Code.
This is their official policy.
See an example here:
Account Restricted Without WARNING– Google AI Ultra / OAuth via OpenClaw
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/account-restricted-without-warning-google-ai-ultra-oauth-via-openclaw/122778
Just saw this on X and posted it in my latest Note:
the #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was MALWARE
https://substack.com/@richardstevenhack/note/c-220220406?r=b9evx&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Love your newsletter, love your vibe coded manga creator, love your take on Naurto. The dumb kid can always outwork the smart&good looking ones.
I would appreciate another "learn to code in 2026 from scratch"
I think most of us non-tech can do some minimum coding, but actually getting some real life projects done is slightly different. So maybe how to use code, agents, to be productive in 2026, would be great.