Jumping the track from a legacy to an AI‑First organization
BLUF: The lesson from tech companies is scale plus heavy, compounding reinvestment in innovation
Mar 12 • Mike Frantzen
The Force-Provider Model for Cyber Leadership
Offensive cyber leadership is easy to talk about, hard to teach, and harder to hire for. Here’s what builds a leader’s intuition, and what I look for in…
Mar 10 • Mike Frantzen
The Token Injection Jailbreak That Wasn’t
Can I Prompt Inject to Control an AI Agent Tool Use With a In-Band Control Tokens?
Mar 6 • Mike Frantzen
Fingerprinting an AI Agent’s Model via Alignment Elicitations
Small changes in prompt tone can measurably shift behavior. That suggests fine tuning leaves behind artifacts that can be useful for model…
Mar 5 • Mike Frantzen
Did Chinese Models Accidentally Train In Anthropic’s Safety?
Did Chinese models accidentally inherit Anthropic’s soul when they illicitly distilled Anthropic's outputs?
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
The Token “Please”: The Science of How One Word Steers an AI
I finally watched Claire Vo's January interview of Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) on how he uses Codex in which they joked about why…
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
From Bootstrapping to Buyout: A Decade of Audiobooks That Tracked My CEO Journey
I got curious about something I’d never actually measured: as my CEO role scaled, did my audiobook habits change… or did I just feel like they did? So I…
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
DoD Doctrine’s Islands (and the Bridges Between Them)
I wanted to see how well DoD doctrinal publications integrate each other, so I built a quick pipeline to fetch and analyze 2,498 publicly accessible DoD…
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
LLM Tokenizers as OSINT: What U.S. vs. Chinese AI Vocabularies Reveal about Competition
An OSINT analysis of U.S. vs. Chinese LLM vocabularies hints at several asymmetries which could advantage certain models in real-world conflict…
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
Cyber’s Tyranny of Time
“Cyber’s Tyranny of Time” a short argument that cyber needs the same kind of conceptual leap air combat made a century ago. In WWI, pilots initially…
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
The Founder's Guide to M&A: Lessons from Selling a Defense Tech Company
Founder's M&A lessons learned from selling a defense tech company: bankers, waterfall & QoE, buyer types, landmines, retention, integration.
Mar 1 • Mike Frantzen
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