Recorded August 7, 2026. We explore AI alignment & safety, Rhys demos his workflow, and we end up mentioning a lot of books.
LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER
AI ALIGNMENT
Wikipedia, AI alignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment
Wikipedia, AI safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety
"Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation," Norbert Wiener https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/moral.pdf
Three laws of robotics (Asimov) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Thinking Machines in Dune https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Thinking_Machines
1960 in music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_music
Billionaires building NZ bunkers https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-boltholes-inside-doomsday-hideouts-170000871.html
Rhys tweet on sandboxes https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2085601612266115487
OpenAI/Hugging Face incident at Black Hat USA 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
OpenAI blog post about Hugging Face incident https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
Hugging Face timeline of the incident https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline
Artifactory https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
Modal https://modal.com
US Congress calls for open hearings with AI executives https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/casar-leads-call-congressional-hearings-ai-ceos
Sunil Kenton Varda tweet https://x.com/threepointone/status/2019124493395063134
Cap'n Proto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Proto
Paperclip Maximizer https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai
Hugging Face's initial security disclosure https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
Project Glasswing at Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
Claude's Constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
qntm - https://qntm.org
There Is No Antimemetics Division https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Antimemetics_Division
Valuable Humans in Transit https://qntm.org/vhitaos
Frame-By-Frame (first draft) https://qntm.org/frame
RHYS'S WORKFLOW
UsefulSoftwareCo (contains Rhys demo repos) https://github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/
Emulate service catalog https://emulators.dev
Executor https://executor.sh
Integrations.sh https://integrations.sh
Model Context Protocol (MCP) https://modelcontextprotocol.io
Executor in YC https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/executor
AGENTS.md https://agents.md
GBrain https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain
Ben Davis pi setup https://github.com/davis7dotsh/my-pi-setup
GStack https://github.com/garrytan/gstack
PostHog https://posthog.com
PlanetScale https://planetscale.com
Playwright https://playwright.dev
Axiom https://axiom.co
Effect https://effect.website
OpenTelemetry https://opentelemetry.io
Dex Horthy, "Why Software Factories Fail" https://x.com/dexhorthy/status/2080697380379427275
Rhys tweet on proactive agents https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2085453490185539655
Polylane https://polylane.com
Rift https://github.com/anomalyco/rift
Wispr Flow https://wisprflow.ai
Kit Langton https://x.com/kitlangton
Coolify https://coolify.io
Matt Pocock's Skills (including grill-me) https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
ls -al https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls
Max Brodeur-Urbas, founder of Gumloop https://www.gumloop.com/creators/max
Rhys tweet about about going slowly https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2076775246900941259
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