Daniel May
Self-taught software engineer & founder of twenty years writing and speaking about systems, games, AI and more.
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new Redistributing Billions in the Neopets Economy A six-month reverse-engineering project on a Neopets shop, the duplication exploit that followed, and what I've come to understand about why I kept going. Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne cited in On agent-coded cold outreach, the alumni t-shirt scam, the Elias Thorne convergence, and what gets visible when no one does the work. Policy aimed at the wrong layer The US forced Anthropic to cut foreign access to Fable and Mythos. But regulating the supply of intelligence misses the real risk surface: the inferences these systems draw about us, and the open trust layer we still haven't built.