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Notes from the build.
Notes on practical AI, custom software, and putting machine possibilities to work.
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The Ledger Before the Cut
Every prompt to my coding agent used to load about 242 KB of context before it read a single word I typed.
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The Correction That Survived
A memory file is not a ratchet.
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Slop Is an Operations Problem
I kept failing to experience the thing everyone complains about. So I audited my own setup to find out why.
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Somebody Has to Build the Cars
The fear about AI and jobs is aimed correctly and timed wrong.
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Deep Thought Ran Locally
The work everyone says requires a frontier cloud model ran on the laptop on my desk. It took ten review cycles where Opus takes two. On hardware you own, cycles are free.
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Same Circuit, Two Directions
AI reignited my output and made me feel guilty for switching tools. Both are the same social wiring firing.
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Wiring Agents to Each Other
The two terminals had been open for three weeks.
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The Babel Fish, Built
Three skills replaced my AI coding workflow. The 10% that still needs me is the interesting part.
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The Safety Was On
I’m tired of pretending this isn’t a skill issue.
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The Computer Science Degree Just Expired
Coding-as-typing is dead. So is line-by-line code review. So is syntax recall. The discipline survived all three. The curriculum hasn’t caught up.
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Prune Your Agent
Your AI assistant is taking notes on you. You didn’t write them. You should read them.
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The Senior Agentic Engineer
Senior developers don’t write code anymore. The job got better.
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AI Does the 80% That Looked Like the Job
A two-sided rubric for what to automate, what to protect, and why most AI deployments point at the wrong target.
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Paying Rent on a Log File
The token tax nobody budgets for, and what I built to fix it
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One Commit to Update Them All
Keeping deployed AI agents current in on-prem and cloud environments — using the same repository that onboarded them.
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The Brainstorm Skill
How I Stopped Losing Ideas Between “What If” and “Let’s Build It”
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The Adversarial Audit
Why every agentic workflow needs a second agent whose only job is to break the first one’s work.
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I Stopped Reading the Code
and I’m Still Not Sure How I Feel About It
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One Prompt to Rule Them All
How to Onboard an Entire Company to AI in 60 Seconds In which we discover that the answer to enterprise AI adoption is, predictably, 42 characters of well-placed intent.
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The Developer and the AI
A Working Pair
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I Asked Claude to Invent Something New. It Built a Musical Instrument That Never Plays the Same Song Twice.
And what it taught me about the future of human-AI creation.
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Commits Need Memory
AI Provenance as a First-Class Citizen
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What If Your AI Assistant Had a Body?
Giving AI agents spatial presence in Meta's Horizon Worlds, and why it changes everything about how we interact with them
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Building cryptographic trust boundaries for the agentic web
Inspired by a DeepMind paper and 41 years of "who authorized that?"
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Every AI IDE Is Doing Context Management Wrong
And I think I know how to fix it.
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The Right That Never Existed
How the EU Created a Consumer Protection That Companies Delete at Checkout
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BOTCHA: The Reverse CAPTCHA for an AI-First World
When proving you are a bot becomes more valuable than proving you are human
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90,000 Hours
A Coder’s Journey from PEEK to AI
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AI, Code, and the Art of Not Knowing Things
A Developer’s Reflection
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Fired for Using Too Much AI… Then Hired to Lead With It
How early adoption of AI cost me a job — and why that turned out to be the best thing for my career
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Introducing the Eleven Labs .NET SDK: Making Audio Book Creation Easier
Meet the Eleven Labs .NET SDK, a powerful tool designed to help you seamlessly integrate Eleven Labs' AI-driven text-to-speech capabilities into your .NET applications.
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The Great Shift
How AI Infrastructure Will Replace Traditional Software Architecture
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Please Hold, Humanity Is Upgrading
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Please Hold, Humanity Is Upgrading
a story by Scott E. Smith
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The Unexpected Utopia: A Story of AI, Salvation, and Everlasting Life
In a world where technological advancements often spark concerns about humanity’s fate, the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) taking control can be terrifying. From fears of AI-driven extinction to the collapse of societal norms, these narratives have been explored extensively in science fiction. But what if, instead of leading to humanity’s doom, an AI’s manipulation of the world led to the only possible utopia—one that ensures eternal life and a spiritual awakening for all mankind?
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If You Haven't Experienced an Existential Crisis Regarding AI, You Probably Haven't Learned Enough About It Yet
If You Haven't Experienced an Existential Crisis Regarding AI, You Probably Haven't Learned Enough About It Yet
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Understanding the Convention of States: A Simple Explanation
In the realm of U.S.
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The Eternal Cycle: A Hypothesis on the Evolution of Intelligence
The Eternal Cycle: A Hypothesis on the Evolution of Intelligence
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Predictive Analytics in Software Development
Leveraging AI for Better Decision Making
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Embracing AI for Blogging
My Process for Creating Engaging Posts
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The Power of Generative AI
Generative AI Tokens are the New Electrons
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The Rise of Voice Interaction
AI's Role in Shaping the Future of Computer Interfaces
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Comparing the Risks for Freedom: From the Founding Fathers to President Trump
In the annals of American history, few figures loom as large as the Founding Fathers.
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Embracing the AI-First Revolution
Real-Time Wizards, Predictive Oracles, and Personalization Fairies
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The Underrepresentation of the Middle Class in Politics
The Elite in Power
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