Chat_175 - Building in the AI Era with Luís Novo & Matt Ahlborg

***"It's going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [that] if I'm not using this the entire day, I'm losing on something, I'm staying behind, I have to keep running this like crazy. But we haven't prepared for it. People are connecting all of their life to these cloud providers, you know: 'Hey, manage my life'. And then you're giving them everything you have. I don't think the industry had enough time to prepare for the right tools for this. How do I really share what is important without putting myself at risk?"

~ Luís Novo***

I sit down with Matt and Luís to unpack how fast AI is really moving, why most of us are barely tapping the intelligence at our fingertips, and how to start building a private "thinking layer" instead of handing your entire life to cloud providers. We dive into Luís's Open Notebook project, how it ties into PPQ and my own PearCore engine, and why the Coldcard mess has me rethinking security, open source, and verification across my whole stack. This one is a deep, practical tour of workflows, tools, and mindset for surviving the AI acceleration without giving up your sovereignty.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Introduction

(00:03:14) - Open Notebook: an Open-Source Context Stack

(00:10:33) - The Coldcard hack and auditing open-source code with AI

(00:15:44) - Live server attacks and the risks of cloud storage

(00:24:44) - How AI agents are autonomously writing and reviewing code

(00:27:10) - Evading cloud AI censorship with local models

(00:41:04) - Building automated media analysis and pipelines

(00:57:24) - The limits of cloud scaling and future local hardware

(01:05:40) - Balancing offensive and defensive AI software engineering

(01:11:24) - Will machines eventually write binary code themselves?

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Open Notebook Website (Link: https://www.open-notebook.ai/)

Open Notebook GitHub (Link: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook)

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