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Security and hacking, sometimes CISO.

I build software and security companies, and the teams behind them. Twenty years of hacking and shipping, from GNUCITIZEN in 2005 to ChatBotKit and Noodle today.

01Security
02AI
03Systems
01

Now

What I am working on today: a hosted agent platform and personal software for the Mac.

AI2022

CBK.AI

cbk.ai →AI2022

ChatBotKit

Hosted agent platform. founder

chatbotkit.com →AI2026

Noodle

Personal AI.

github / noodle →AI2026

ZOT.IM

Autonomous coding harness.

zot.im →
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Writing

Essays on software, AI and how work gets done. Newest first.

Essay16

I Call This Result-Only Software

Result-only software is built around the exact outcome produced by a run. Once that outcome has been reached and verified, the software may have no further job.

Read →Essay15

Software for a Market of One

Desktop agents are making it practical to create software for a single user. SaaS will remain where continuity and shared control matter, but personal productivity software is becoming something people make for themselves.

Read →Essay14

Work at Race Pace

AI may shorten the working day by compressing the same amount of work into a much more intense period. Once that happens, hours stop being a useful measure of effort.

Read →
13The Age of Personal Software→12A Firewall For Attention→11Permission To Exist→10Human-AI Coexistence→09On The Frontiers of Intelligence→08The Nature of Authorship in The AI Era→07On Discursiveness in Reading→06Personal Website→05Mental Models→04Books Digest 2021→03Innovation is Nonlinear→0210 Rules From Books→01Time And Money→00Jobs Of Tomorrow→
03

Record

21 years, four chapters. Founded, built, and still running.

Since2005The year it started, with a security research group.
Projects25From web security tools to AI products and Mac apps.
Essays17On software, AI, reading and how we work.
2005Founded

GNUCITIZEN, a security research group.

2007–08Founded

SecApps and Websecurify, security testing products.

2022Founded · runs

ChatBotKit, a hosted agent platform.

2026Builds

Personal software: Noodle, Diorama, ModRadio.

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Index

Everything I have made, by date started. Security, AI, agents and macOS.

No.ProjectFieldStartedRole
25DioramaVirtual display for clean macOS screenshotsmacOS2026-09-12
24NoodlePersonal AIAI2026-09-04
23ModRadiomacOS2026-08-19
22pionsecurity2026-08-06
21launcherAI2026-07-27
20buzzbox / buzznodeAI2026-07-25
19relentless.worksAI2026-07-21
18Agentic Coderagent2026-07-11
17Paper Traderagent2026-07-08
16Arcadeagent2026-07-05
15ZOT.IMAutonomous coding harnessAI2026-06-15
14crmkit.aiAI2026-06-04
13rooksecurity2026-06-01
12mcpshim.devAI2026-02-23
11pantalk.devAI2026-02-16
10peopleai.appAI2023-02-10
09ChatBotKitHosted agent platformAI2022-12-19founder
08CBK.AIAI2022-12-19
07bountypage.comsecurity2022-08-12
06priorityattack.comsecurity2022-06-06
05cohesion.shsecurity2020-01-16
04pownjs.comsecurity2017-03-14
03Websecurifyweb security testingsecurity2008-06-07founder
02SecAppssecurity appssecurity2007-11-07founder
01GNUCITIZENsecurity research groupsecurity2005-02-25founder
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Elsewhere

Code, notes and the occasional newsletter.

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