TL;DR: When my family and friends picture scam prevention, they assume a single magic box labelled “Filter”. But as technologists working under Australia’s new Scam Prevention Framework (SPF), our job is breaking that assumption down into …
I Used An Agent To Verify My Accountant's Work
TL;DR: I used pi.dev to verify my tax return by co-designing a 7-stage SKILL.md with a Visual-Reasoning Loop. The agent found a missing investment-loan statement that my accountant had missed—proving that deterministic tasks need deterministic procedures, …
Why Scam Defence Can't Rely on Victims Alone
This is a true story.
A friend’s wife received a call from someone claiming to be from the ATO. The caller was aggressive and convincing. He told her that her husband had been arrested for tax fraud and, because of the “seriousness” of the case, the family …
The SPF Good Guys
Scam!
We’ve all seen the headlines. It’s usually a variation of the same story: the “good guys” chasing the “bad guys,” with the villains always appearing to be three steps ahead. For a long time, I never really questioned who those …
OpenCode Vibing Gone Wrong
“I am so disappointed. You wasted $0.35 and actually broke my blog completely.”
“No, that did not fix the blog. Can you roll back all the changes you just made?”
“You deleted my draft write-up for Post#4. Where is it?” …