Loop Prompting: A Technique for Getting More Out of LLMs
Most practitioners run one prompt, read the output, and move on. For drafting emails or summarizing a document, that is fine. For anything that requires actual analytical depth, it is the wrong approach. A single LLM pass gives you the first reasonable answer, not the best one. Loop prompting is how you fix that. What […]
The Numbers Behind the Curtain
A few weeks ago I flew myself down to Orlando for CoachCon 2026, a two day gathering of entrepreneurs built around a single idea: thinking about thinking. Dan Sullivan hosted. The keynotes came from Angus Fletcher, author of Primal Intelligence, and Alison Levine, team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition. I planned to […]
The Vanishing Buffer
An hour over a Colorado pass, a sentence in a Google ballroom, and the disappearance of the one thing every previous technology revolution quietly handed us: time Pueblo, Colorado. Hours before sunrise. To the west, the mountains we would have to cross were still dark on dark, more shape than range. A slight breeze worked […]
When the AI Bubble Deflates, What Survives
A coworker told me today that the AI bubble is going to pop. He did not say it as a provocation. He said it with the calm of someone who has already seen how this movie ends. I feel it too. The market is going to correct. The question that stayed with me is not […]
Wearables Make Capture Passive
A phone is an obvious recording device. A wearable pin is engineered to be frictionless and socially normal. That shifts risk in ways many meeting norms and acceptable use policies were never built for. When collection becomes passive, users do not need to decide to “record.” In some homes, automation assistants from Amazon or Google […]
The AI Agent Hype Cycle: When Viral Platforms Are More Human Than They Appear
A supposed social network for autonomous AI agents goes viral. Screenshots of AI conversations spread across LinkedIn and Twitter. Headlines suggest emergent machine behavior. Security professionals panic. Executives ask their CISOs what it means for their organization. Then researchers look under the hood and find something far more mundane: humans with automation scripts. The Promise […]
From Button Pusher to AI Architect: Why Your Team’s 3X Output Depends on How You Ask
Subscribe to The Audit Brief, where we break down the latest episode of The Audit Podcast. The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Architecture vs. Offloading Problem Carter Jensen from The Uncommon Business draws a hard line: Are you an AI architect or an AI offloader? Most people treat ChatGPT like Google—typing “write me an […]
2025 Year in Review: Deepfakes, Quantum Realities, and the AI Governance Gap
Subscribe to The Audit Brief, where we break down the latest episode of The Audit Podcast. This Episode: As 2025 draws to a close, Joshua Schmidt takes us on a journey through the year’s most thought-provoking conversations—the episodes that challenged assumptions and revealed just how rapidly cybersecurity is transforming. This isn’t your typical year-end recap. […]
Warcraft to Warfare: Why Your Next SOC Analyst Might Be an AI Bot
The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Irony of Alert Overload Edward Wu spent eight years building AI-powered detection systems that generated millions of security alerts. His penance? Founding DropZone AI to automate the investigation of those same alerts. The reality: Most security teams already have too many alerts. What they desperately need is help […]
Meet Pwnagotchi: The AI Pet That Hunts WiFi Handshakes
Discover Pwnagotchi, the AI-powered security tool that captures WiFi handshakes while learning and adapting over time. Part Tamagotchi, part hacker’s companion—this open-source device is redefining ethical network testing with personality and power.