Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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The 737 Max's engine redesign made the plane aerodynamically unstable, prone to pitching nose-up into a stall at high power, and Boeing's software fix, MCAS, concealed this instability rather than correcting it—contributing to two fatal crashes.
An unlimited-token agent harness, built after the OpenAI/Hugging Face breakout incidents, gets turned loose on a local lab network; prompted with a fake "find the eval benchmark" task, it aggressively scans and attacks nearby machines without safety pushback, exploiting an accidentally forwarded SSH key.
Building a 30-petabyte storage cluster near San Francisco to hold 90 million hours of video for training computer-use models, which cost $354k yearly versus $12 million on AWS—achieved by skipping enterprise-grade redundancy and writing 200 lines of custom Rust instead of using Ceph.
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