Hackbot R&D

I’m a researcher working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and computer security. I work at Dreadnode training and evaluating the hacking capabilities of agents. I’ll be working in this field until we see hacking’s move 37.

Pretraining at home: 20B tokens from 222 hours to 12

Optimizing training a Llama 3.2 1B model so we can pretrain in a day without going broke.

Offsec Evals: Growing Up In The Dark Forest

If you contribute a public benchmark, are you giving free capability to your competitors?

DiLoCo: Data Parallelism for the Datacenter Poor

Distributed training sans datacenter.

The Input Sanitization Perspective on Prompt Injection

So, you mixed user input and instructions.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Security: Toward an Autonomous Pentesting Agent

A manifesto on RL in cybersecurity, from when deep RL was the thing.

An ML Eng's Review of OSCP

Because you shouldn’t try and automate anything you can’t do yourself.