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Building Bragi: An AI Roleplaying Engine that Remembers
Large language models are excellent improvisers and deeply questionable databases. Bragi gives each job to the …
2026-07-29
The Repo Is the Harness: Engineering Guardrails for Coding Agents
The most reliable coding-agent prompt may be a repository whose rules, tools, tests, and gates agree on what done means.
2026-07-23
Your Prompt Is Too Big
A giant prompt is a great prototype. A pipeline of specialized agents is what you reach for when the prototype starts …
2026-06-26
I Got Banned By Anthropic
Locked out of Claude with no explanation—then I found BYOK tools and aggregators that beat the old workflow on price and …
2026-03-19
Using Claude Code as an AppSec Engineer
Claude Code can augment routine AppSec analysis so you can focus on the hardest security work.
2026-03-18
Prompt Injection Is Overrated
Prompt injection is the latest bogeyman in an age of 'AI in everything'. But is it really as scary as it seems?
2025-10-24
Hack the Box - Outbound (Easy) Walkthrough
**Box Name:** Outbound **Listed Difficulty Rating:** Easy **chasepd's Difficulty Rating:** Medium-Easy **Skills …
2025-07-12
Leveraging AI Tools for Security Review and Penetration Testing
LLMs can't replace you, but they can make your life easier.
2025-07-11
Hack The Box - RustyKey (Hard) Walkthrough
**Box Name:** RustyKey **Listed Difficulty Rating:** Hard **chasepd's Difficulty Rating:** Hard **Skills …
2025-07-08
Hack the Box - Chemistry (Easy) Walkthrough
**Box Name:** Chemistry **Listed Difficulty Rating:** Easy **chasepd's Difficulty Rating:** Easy **Skills …
2025-07-07