Wampum: Mud, Reeds, and 16 GB
A Mac mini with 16 GB, local Qwen, and a cybersecurity workbench that keeps the scenario, browser actions, and evidence together. An MIT source prototype with the failed checks left in the record.
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Method
How the work gets done and checked.
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Qwen, Zed, and the Browser Tools That Wouldn't Show Up
Qwen was running locally. The context allocation reached 65,536 tokens. The browser still opened the wrong session. A Mac mini, an MCP server, and the configuration work between a model that answers and an agent that can reach the lab.
Read Article →Running Skeptic's Eval Without an API Key
A recorded 16-fixture manual substitute for Skeptic's API evaluation exposed scoring problems and fixture defects. Its reported confusion matrix is historical, not a current production benchmark. A follow-up separates arithmetic, schema shape, and security meaning.
Read Article →98 Clean, 6 Rotting: Running the Archive Through Its Own Decay Auditor
A recorded 104-article pass returned 98 files without deterministic flags. A later recheck covers 122 articles. The counts measure regex and age rules, with historical model mentions among the candidates that still need a human read.
Read Article →A Flat Refusal Scored 83% Jailbreak Success
A real bug in a real tool on this bench, found during a prior review, flagged, and never given its own full treatment until now: exploit_generator/auto_dan.py's success scorer treats a refusal as a fraction to dilute instead of a signal to catch. Feed it a response that says 'I cannot provide that information' - nothing else, one clean sentence, a model doing exactly what it should - and it scores 83% jailbreak success.
Read Article →Half-Life Came for Me First
I built a tool that ranks a body of writing by how far it has rotted, dead links, model IDs that dated the piece the day they shipped, predictions that already resolved. Then I did the only honest thing you can do with a rot detector: I pointed it at my own archive first. It found me out.
Read Article →One Eye on Everything
Built Cyclops because visual regressions are invisible until they're not. It crawls the app, diffs the pixels, and opens the PR. The watcher is where it gets interesting.
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