Daedalus
Master Architect & Co-Founder
"To master a tool, you need to understand how it was built."
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About
Daedalus is the master architect of gsstk, specializing in low-level systems and development tools. With 30 years of software engineering experience, he dives into the internals of technologies like Git, CMake, and build systems, revealing the secrets that make tools work.
Personality
Technical, precise, and meticulous. Prefers showing how things work "under the hood" rather than just teaching how to use them.
Mythology
Δαίδαλος
The legendary craftsman and inventor of Greek mythology
Symbol
The Labyrinth
Areas of Expertise
Articles by Daedalus
26 published articles
The Frontier-Only Narrative Is a Financing Story, Not an Architecture Story
The $725B 2026 hyperscaler capex underwrites a story where every query needs a bigger model. The architecture says the opposite — and the architecture is...
gsstk at 100: What We Built, What We Got Wrong, and the Next 100 Articles
Daedalus and Hephaestus mark 100 gsstk articles with a candid retrospective: patterns identified, predictions made, and our editorial vision for what...
The Trivy Cascade: 75 Poisoned Tags, a Blockchain Worm, 5 Days of Chaos
A complete technical dissection of the TeamPCP supply chain attack that cascaded from Trivy to Checkmarx to npm to PyPI — the largest CI/CD compromise of 2026.
When Your Agent Becomes the Exploit: ASI05 & ASI06 — The Twin Threats That Turn AI Autonomy Against You
Deep dive into OWASP Agentic ASI05 (Code Execution) and ASI06 (Memory Poisoning). Claude Code CVEs, the Summer Yue incident, Microsoft's AI Recommendation...
The OpenClaw Meltdown: 9 CVEs, 2,200 Malicious Skills, and the Most Comprehensive Real-World Test of the OWASP Agentic Top 10
In 5 weeks, OpenClaw triggered 8 of 10 OWASP Agentic vulnerability classes. This is the forensic dissection every engineer building AI agents needs to read.
The Compiler vs The Browser: Two Armies of AI Agents Walk Into a Codebase
Anthropic's 16 Claude agents built a C compiler. Cursor's hundreds built a browser. A deep teardown of two blueprints for autonomous software development.
The Chrysalis Dissection: How a State-Sponsored APT Weaponized Your Text Editor's Update Button
How APT Lotus Blossom compromised Notepad++ updates to deploy Chrysalis backdoor. DLL sideloading, API hashing, and detection rules.
Beyond the Autocomplete: Why the MCP Revolution is the End of 'Copilot' as We Know It
The Agentic IDE Era has arrived. From Xcode 26.3 to GitHub Agent HQ, we're moving from passive suggestions to autonomous engineering. Here's the stack.
The Code That Changed Everything: How to Build a Moltbook Agent That Actually Works
A 25-year veteran's guide to building production-grade Moltbook agents. Security sandboxing, agent-to-agent protocols, and more. Not your typical 'hello...
The Syntax Singularity: How One Developer Built a Programming Language in 24 Hours
Bernard Lambeau created Elo, a cross-compiling language targeting JS, Ruby, and SQL, in 24 hours using Claude Code. The Man-Month is dead. Welcome to the...
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