Daniel Miessler: recommendation

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…Yeah. Yeah, I would say the big difference is the main concept that also underlies cloud code itself, which is this whole scaffolding more important than the model model, right? So the difference is when your AI understands what you're trying to do. So, when you make a request to a tool, especially a year or two ago, like ChatGPT or whatever, it would largely be just taking it out of context. It would just be finding the best answer according to the world knowledge or whatever, the model's knowledge. But the magic is when it's actually encompassing everything about you and incorporating that into the pursuit of the best answer, right? So, the more your system knows about you, the more it can customize its responses. And it's not trivial customizations, it's things oriented around your goals. My challenge to you and to others is to basically sit down and dump via dictation or writing or whatever you want to do, or just drag a bunch of documents and be like, look, this is you're basically doing a telos assessment of yourself to figure out what you think the problems are. Your own problems inside what you're trying to do with your career, what's wrong with the world, or whatever. You dump that. Then you say, Here's what my capabilities are. You're basically doing this interview with the AI, and that builds out the telos structure of what you're trying to accomplish. That is then part of your PI, your personal AI infrastructure. Now, having that, when I initiate Cloud Code, which is running Pi, it reads my entire thing on startup. So, it now knows me. It knows my digital assistant's personality. And most importantly, it loads all my skills, which are customized also for me. My blogging skill, my writing skill. I'm reading this amazing book right now by Mark Forsyth. I think it's Elements of Eloquence, I think. But it's about the rhetorical figures going back to Greek and Roman, and basically how to write well. So, that's now so basically when I learned that, I read this book. I literally have an upgrade skill inside of Pi. I can take any YouTube video, just paste in the link. It goes and gets the transcript. This thing is absolutely insane. It goes and gets the transcript. It reads my entire telos, what I'm trying to accomplish. It looks at my full PI system and gives me recommendations on how to upgrade itself. So, that means all the skills, all the hook system, all the context, the memory system. So, another thing that the Pi system has, which most other systems don't have, is a system of memory, which is writing signals that I'm giving the AI about how it's doing. And this is like this rotating loop, which goes back into the upgrade skill. So, it's okay, how good are we doing as an overall system in helping Daniel to accomplish his goals? How happy is he with the system? And then that just goes round and round to making little tweaks and updates to the system itself. doing as an overall system in helping Daniel to accomplish his goals? How happy is he with the system? And then that just goes round and round to making little tweaks and updates to the system itself. So, when Cloud Code releases a version, which they did yesterday, I'm looking at it right now, it's 2.1.6. Okay, they released a bunch of capabilities in there. That's in their change log. They also might talk about that in an engineering post. They also might have more detail inside of GitHub. I just say perform upgrades. It goes and hits podcasts. It goes and hits YouTube channels to see if anything new came out. It reads every Anthropic Engineering blog. It looks at the change notes for cloud code. And then it comes back with a prioritized recommendation list of how to upgrade our Pi system so that it will work better using the new features. So, it's this continuous loop of getting better at accomplishing what I'm doing. I would say that's the biggest thing. And just as a little bit of like partial testimony here, I do a lot of bug bounty stuff. So, basically, finding legal programs where you can find vulnerabilities and get paid for them. And I've got a whole bunch of friends who are in this space as well. And they're constantly looking for vulnerabilities. I got this one friend. He's an amazing guy. He's a cardiologist. So he's over here hacking at the same time he's doing, he's actually in the clinic and he's working with patients and everything. But he specializes in client-side vulnerabilities. So he had been using Cloud Code because I got him onto Cloud Code. But when he switched to Pi, it basically enrolled all of his personal techniques as skills. So now when his Pi loads up, it's thoroughly trained on how he likes to find vulnerabilities, all his personal techniques. So now he could just bring in a target. It goes and gathers the stuff. the stuff. And the number of bugs that he has found has gone massively up and they're paying out more. And pretty much everyone that I've talked to who's using the Pi system on top of Cloud Code, they're getting just much more value. And to be clear, this is the same direction that Cloud Code is going, right? They're going to have this type of Pi-like stuff before too long as well. But the short answer is when it's more, when your AI stack, your agentic stack or whatever the term, is more tied to your actual goals and knows more about you. It is just infinitely more capable. Plus, we've got a lot of quality of life stuff. So I do everything inside the terminal. I'm a Vim person. So tab completions, I've got a full voice system that uses 11 labs for customized voices. When I spin up custom agents, they all have their own voices and personalities. So it really feels more like I'm dealing with my friend Kai than I'm talking to a coding agent that's producing code. Can you this is you mentioned like Cloud Code is going this direction as well. Can you give a little bit more detail on like where cloud code ends and where Pi begins? One of my funny refrains is like, everything is isomorphic to everything else. By which I mean you can always play hide the intelligence. And I find that there's a lot of different ways to structure these things. And I'll maybe pitch you on a different one in a second, get your reaction to it.…

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