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.

The Tests All Pass

METR’s SWE-bench analysis shows us taste isn’t verifiable.

Intro to GPUs For the Researcher

Getting comfortable with the hardware on a quest for more MFU.

All Reduce Across the Atlantic: Bandwidth in Decentralized Training

The practical realities of devestatingly high communication cost in training.

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.