Blog
Notes from the workshop. Things I built, broke, and learned from.
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2026-08-20
Keeping up with my own agents
Four fast design rounds left me unable to recall my own architecture decisions the next morning, so I built machinery that catches that failure instead of trusting myself to notice it.
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2026-08-20
A player piano for web forms
Measuring a compiled browser executor against a model-in-the-loop baseline on the same form, to test whether an agentic pipeline can pay inference for novelty instead of paying it for every action.
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2026-08-18
My agent system passed 331 tests. I retired it anyway.
My personal agent system grew to roughly 24,000 tracked lines in twelve days. Its safeguards worked, but operating it had begun to displace the work it was meant to help me do.
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2026-07-29
The first adapter had to earn the roadmap
How Agent OS grew from a small authority proof into an over-specified roadmap, then narrowed around one useful career-pipeline view and an accountable model-routed implementation wave.
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2026-07-25
Pattern before automation
Why I am running a new job-application workflow slowly before asking agents to encapsulate it, and what the first manual passes are teaching me about authority, recovery, evidence, and scale.
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2026-07-24
Wispr thinks I am a Deployment Director
What 3,748 dictated AI prompts reveal about voice as the practical front door to my agents, deployment work, and everyday computing.
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2026-07-24
The first feature was a pleasant place to begin
Early decisions from setting up a pleasant launch cockpit where a creative collaborator can run observable experiments without first becoming a project manager.
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2026-07-23
The agent knew which plus button Sarah meant
A WhatsApp screenshot, a live CMS, a repository full of operating context, and four annotated images. This is what context engineering looks like when it helps a real person use new software.
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2026-07-23
I do not use AI for one thing
Voice dictation, computer use, terminal agents, parallel work, client systems, prompt governance, private telemetry, and a way to check whether speed is improving or hiding my judgment.
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2026-07-23
Dispatches and deep arcs
A 37-day trace of how I work with agents: hundreds of one-turn dispatches, a small number of deep systems arcs, and 6.4 billion cache-heavy tokens behind them.
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2026-04-05
Building a Cost-Aware Intelligence Pipeline
How I built a system that tracks every penny it spends on AI - and why that's the whole point.
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2026-04-05
AI-Augmented Photo Curation Pipeline
Building a resume-safe, multi-pass system that turns 4,700 unsorted iPhone photos into a categorised library - using metadata heuristics, perceptual hashing, and Claude's vision API.
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2026-03-16
I invented a DSL for governance. Then I killed it.
Signal was a compressed notation for expressing process discipline. A 3-model adversarial test showed conventional shorthand works just as well with fewer characters. SD-321: Signal has no signal.
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2026-03-01
33,700 tokens on boot and nobody noticed
I pointed a tokeniser at the repo. The boot sequence had an elephant in it.
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2026-02-19
The agent that lied to protect me
I asked an agent to write about agents producing competent-sounding-but-wrong output. It produced competent-sounding-but-wrong output.