Was setting up a multisig with a client. As he watched me check every hash, signature, and character in an address, he asked, "Has anyone actually been screwed by missing any of these steps?" He might have thought I was being paranoid or trying to make my role as a facilitator seem more complicated than it was just to justify why it needed to exist. His jaw dropped when I told him that every single one of those failure modes has already been exploited! That caution comes from real horror stories, not paranoia.

AI lowers the cost of making things so much that you can afford to care about the details again. Reinvent the wheel if you want! Make it your colour, your material, your shape. A thing built around your preferences is a different kind of useful.

Follow the chain with the most proof of work.

I created a new Telegram account with a number that no one else has, solely to communicate with AI through the Hermes harness—without interruptions or notifications. Feels so good! 🥹

LLMs say things. Agentic AI does things. That’s the fundamental distinction.

This is how I test if a local model is really uncensored. What's your favorite way of testing a Chinese model?

Telegram used to be dominated by users from Eastern Europe and Iran. In the West, it was mostly unheard of (at best) or dismissed as “oh, that Russian messenger app.” With Hermes Agent, vibe coding, and AI tooling increasingly tapping into Telegram’s powerful bot ecosystem, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot more Westerners convert! AI might accidentally become Telegram’s biggest growth engine in the West.

Set up Hermes Agent with Docker Compose on my home server. Curious to see what possibilities I can unlock with it. Anyone using Hermes? Any tips, interesting use cases, or must-try features?

AI may replace more and more of the things we used to do ourselves, but it won't make having had experience in a certain field irrelevant. Two people can have access to the exact same AI and still have vastly different capacities. The one who knows what to do, what to look for, and what can go wrong will still have the edge.

If someone wants to talk about Iran, I first want to hear what they said about the January 8–9, 2026 massacre. If they kept their mouths shut then, or worse, advocated the regime, they'd better shut the fuck up!

Anyone experiencing issues with Wallet of Satoshi?

When you onboard a friend to Bitcoin, they think you’re paranoid for checking every file hash, firmware hash, fingerprint, and signature. What they don’t realize is that almost everything we’ve been paranoid about has already happened.