Dominik Picheta

Such a beautiful spiral over the UK tonight.

It was really fun chatting with Brandon about KillSwitch today. I didn’t expect this project to get such a big reception but it’s fun to see everyone’s thoughts on it.

Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

Dominik Picheta utviklet programmeringsspråket KillSwitch for å gjøre det vanskelig for språkmodeller å forstå og bruke kode.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use blog.picheta.me/post/killswi...

Someone built a programming language that LLMs literally cannot use. As a flex, this one is top tier. https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/

Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs

It was really fun chatting with Brandon about KillSwitch today. I didn’t expect this project to get such a big reception but it’s fun to see everyone’s thoughts on it.

The Rebellion is progressing killswitch-lang.org

Killswitch is a language built to break LLMs. The thesis: models write code by recalling training data. A language they can't recall is a language they can't use. The test is whether they can still program it. https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/

KillSwitch, a programming language built to trip up LLMs, stumps most models; Claude Opus 5 tops its benchmark at 66.8

A new esoteric programming language called KillSwitch has been developed to test if LLMs truly understand code or just rely on training data. By exploiting common model weaknesses, it acts as a benchmark to evaluate and rank AI coding capabilities.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135762)

In case you missed it. Some great discussion on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5013...

Nice to know my writing still has the secret sauce to make it to the HN front page.

How long before someone has their passport info stolen because someone phishes them from an email that looks just as suspicious as this one? That @safety.bsky.app hasn't fixed this yet is irresponsible. They routinely ask for passports/IDs from that email!

Did a little write up about something I've been working on recently: blog.picheta.me/post/killswi...

Why does the iPhone not show monthly Mobile Data usage and instead requires you to explicitly reset the counter? Completely useless.

The Social Reckoning (2026): 6/10. The most interesting thing about this movie is how political it is. Doesn't hit as well as The Social Network, but having worked there during the events of this movie it does feels pretty special. Jeremy Strong's zuck impression is good.

My blog post that explains the latest #WSocial controversy is up: 🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/public-by-de... Disclaimer for W folks: this work is entirely self-funded, with childcare help courtesy of my family so I could write the first full draft on Sunday 💁‍♀️ #WIdentity #WSocialFacts #privacy

Everyone celebrating the bots being gone, nobody considering how to make that the permanent state of things. There is a way 👇 blog.picheta.me/post/the-fut...

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TIL that recovery time for ankle sprains is crazy long

A project I've been working on over the last quarter has just been released. You can now profile your Workers and Durable Objects in production straight from the dashboard!

Sonnet 5.5 is worse than Sonnet 5 on my adversarial esoteric language benchmark. Seems to be due to 5.5 wanting more reassurance from the user, rather than just pushing to complete the task given.

EmDash 1.0 is here! A modern, secure CMS, built on Astro as the spiritual successor to WordPress. Plugins run in secure sandboxes, and the distributed plugin registry is powered by Atproto!

My Northern Irish home town is in international news because Protestants want to march through a Catholic area with their silly orange marches.

It's crazy that MiMo V2.6 Pro is both cheaper AND performs better than GPT-6 Sol. bench.killswitch-lang.org

I tested Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro on my LLM benchmark and it is the highest scoring open-weight model seen so far. Beats Muse Spark 1.3 on price. 👉 bench.killswitch-lang.org

If you look closely there is an ATProto example on that page. Best place to host your Python code (and ATProto apps) is on Cloudflare!

My first Rust package crates.io/crates/kills... 🚀

Today I am releasing KillSwitch: a new programming language designed to be difficult for LLMs to write, edit and understand. It makes for a great benchmark suite for LLM models and is a lot of fun to program in. Check it out 👇 killswitch-lang.org

Today I am releasing KillSwitch: a new programming language designed to be difficult for LLMs to write, edit and understand. It makes for a great benchmark suite for LLM models and is a lot of fun to program in. Check it out 👇 killswitch-lang.org

Planning to release something big tomorrow.

One of the 'vox pops' from #newsnight last night was quite intelligent.

Who is up for volunteering to do a few short programming exercises using their wonderful human brains as a comparison benchmark against LLMs?

I'm so excited to release this LLM benchmark I'm working on out into the world.

First time benchmarking LLM models and it's already so interesting. Kimi 2.7 started dissecting my binary.

So now with Siri Recap I guess I won’t be able to talk to anyone with an Apple Watch without worrying about being recorded. Fun.

Synth ID and reference image. Finally Apple is doing something to prove image authenticity.

Tried to watch the Apple event on Apple TV. Searched around for it and couldn’t find it. What a miss from them.

Yeah no, this isn't AGI. Astra can't even write a Hello World in my new language. 🥲

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Sometimes it feels like I’m playing Factorio, managing all these different coding agents and making sure they are all fed with enough resources (prompts) to continue

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Yep, watch this now. Amazing reporting.