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1 Jun 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup

“I think I'm trying to be more unified or simplified. So I have a unsupervised learning unified GitHub, which is essentially what are we doing work it's So the reason I'm using GitHub for this is because it has so many primitives already built in.”

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Daniel Miessler
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1 Jun 2026
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The Cognitive Revolution

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…you know, themselves also kind of need it. So there's kind of this, the lowest level thing is just like shared utilities. I think last comment and then I'll just ask you for feedback is a big unlock. I think has been realizing that my top level second brain called Code Agent can change all these repos underneath it without needing to be it. So I think an early version of me was like, I've got these autonomous agents over here. I'll go prompt them to enhance themselves, they'll make commits and then that'll go up to the cloud. And now I've realized it's probably best for me to just have this single agent at the top of the hierarchy change itself and also make the edits to whatever other repositories need to be edited. And then the command to the agents is like, you've got changes coming from the, you know, you're, you're sort of highest level AI supervisor update yourself. Of course, that could even be that command could also be issued, you know, via SSH from the top level agent. But it's, it's less of a like, update yourself as you see fit and more of A at us as a, as a system. We've made some upgrades like get yours and you know now you'll be using that in the future. I'm sure I've left out some details there that might be relevant. So if there, if you see gaps in terms of how this works, ask me and then otherwise, you know, tell me what do you think? What am I doing right or or wrong? I mean, I think that's that's overall correct. It sounded I heard a lot of different repos in there. I think I'm trying to be more unified or simplified. So I have a unsupervised learning unified GitHub, which is essentially what are we doing work it's So the reason I'm using GitHub for this is because it has so many primitives already built in. So you can use issues, you can actually comment on things. And what's cool about it is those replies and everything can actually be targeted by emails. So you can actually interact with the file structure or the system structure of GitHub kind of for free, like as a project management system with e-mail or with GitHub command line individually. So what I have is I have separate agents. They're in Mac minis, they're on a DMZ inside of my firewall. So they are essentially Internet boxes that I treat them like cloud boxes, like like an actual separate employee. They have their own personalities. They have a first name and last name. They have an image. I didn't give them a writing style because I didn't really need to, but other than just like B, terse and concise and stuff like that. But they have their own Mac, their own Mac account, their own UL account, which is Google and their own AI account. And the way I handle the access to skills and tools and stuff is just a GitHub repo. So and all this is automated so that it's regularly doing checks. Now what's cool about the universal UL system is Kai has access to that that one also. But all my I have 3 Devi, Soren and Mira are their names and they're kind of broken up by different roles. But Kai can see all of them and the GitHub repo, they each can see the GitHub repo. But what's cool is I can say, hey, I have a project blah blah blah that gets automatically marked up as pending or future or whatever. Plus it's a project. So tags within GitHub is also really powerful feature here. And what's cool is the agents can then go and look every 5 minutes at the repo to see if there's something new to be done. Like I just gave a resource task to Chi, which means I've given it to my overall system, I've given it to the company, and now whoever gets there first or whoever's best suited for the job, I haven't really sorted that out. Right now, it's just who gets there first. Literally sees an open GitHub issue. It's unresolved, so it marks it as I'm currently working on it, and then just goes and works and brings back the results. And now all of my AI, most importantly, Chi and my overall π automation could just know the state of the company by looking at the state of GitHub. So for separation, it's separate everything on those individual boxes, including the AI account, and I'm using all of that through just π. So the other thing that gets you is the fact that each instance has their own skills, and the shared skills are on GitHub. So basically it sounds like you think GitHub could replace my custom agent message bus? Probably probably could. I can just I could use the GitHub app as like the place where I collaborate with, comment back and forth with organize work.…

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