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The 19-Point Result I Almost Ignored

A modest email experiment became the basis of my 7th-place, gold-medal finish in Kaggle's AI Agent Security competition. Recognizing it took longer than building it.

Daylit research workstation with a monitor, keyboard, and printed notes.
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I Tested Every Claude Code Output Style. None Made Claude Easier to Understand.

Ten isolated runs, two coding tasks, five built-in styles. Concise cut the visible text by 63%. The comprehension problem survived.

Five differently sized speech shapes filled with dense marks, studied by a reader with a small lens
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How I Keep GPT-5.6 Sol From Solving the Wrong Problem

Sol can keep digging long after other models stop. That same persistence can lock onto the wrong interpretation and perfect it.

An angular path turning into a dark corner beside a bright open doorway
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CVE-2026-15014: Unbound OTP Verification State in SMS Alert

A valid OTP verified one phone number. A later request chose the account. The session never proved they were the same.

Two overlapping profiles sharing one verification seal, with a shadow belonging to the other identity
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Daybreak Blue's Instructions Changed. So Did My Security Workflow.

Same model alias. Same CLI. Same machine. Sixty-two seconds apart, Codex loaded two different instruction sets.

A translucent instruction layer lifting to reveal a route that diverges underneath
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If You Used AI to Build It, You Built It

People keep asking whether you're still a programmer if AI wrote the code. I think the question is backwards.

A keyboard dissolving into a branching decision network as a hand selects a verification gate
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Be Careful: Your LLM Can Be Talked Into Almost Anything

Modern LLMs have strong defences. But what if the injection does not look like an attack? What if it looks like the job?

A fabricated paper fragment passing through a verification network and hardening into a confident market structure
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