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Short essays, field reflections, and public notes about AI, work, systems, and what changes when the frontier moves into daily life.
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1999 EQTS: Building Debug Tools
Rethinking UI generation by using AI to build specific debugging tools for retro software archaeology and game-scene inspection.
Writing · Advisory Hour Note · Apr 10, 2026You know you’re in a deep rabbit hole
A short note from the edge of an agentic build where the next action sounds like fictional compiler lore.
Writing · Visualization Note · May 29, 2026Pathfinding and NPC placement visualization
A compact visual note from an active AI-world experiment: movement, placement, and the moment a generated space starts to become inspectable.
Writing · Craft · May 28, 2026On letting AI do the writing
A reflection on treating writing like a muscle, and why using AI well still depends on practicing clarity for yourself.
Writing · Architecture Note · May 26, 2026Large software architecture change across service boundaries
A short project note on moving layers and tiers around service boundaries while keeping tests as the safety rail.
Writing · Visual AI Notes · May 10, 2026The automated first-person-view switch is holding up
A short field note on first-person continuity in a generated grocery-store image sequence.
Writing · Agentic AI · May 10, 2026Sent one of agents to recreate a little magic
A short field note on sending an agent to recreate decades-old game-engine magic in TypeScript from the ground up.
Writing · Substack note · May 10, 2026I started posting more regularly. 90day stats are slightly up.
A quick public-loop check-in on posting rhythm, 90-day Substack stats, and the small signals that show up when a habit becomes visible.
Writing · AI & Understanding · May 20, 2026This one's for the mind, that one's for the machine.
Why formless AI knowledge blobs are not the same thing as understanding, and why the mind still needs edge work.
Writing · Robots · May 17, 2026While waiting on Codex limits to reset, back to building robots it is.
A short bench note on a WIP Picar-X robot, NanoPi on-board control, and a Jetson-class “system2 big brain” driver plan.
Writing · Image Note · May 18, 2026Image-only note: wet street at night
A cinematic visual note: rain-slick asphalt, orange streetlights, and a lone white coupe moving through a city corner.
Writing · Games & Browser Experiments · May 14, 2026I’ll be writing on EverQuest 1999 for a few days.
A short field note on old virtual worlds, browser-native lenses, and the odd places a research thread starts.
Writing · Agentic AI · May 13, 2026The end of the home office?
How agentic AI changed the meaning of the home office, and why the human part of the work can move back into the world.
Writing · Agentic AI · May 12, 2026Codex still working
A short field note from day three of a long-running Codex task, with the agent still methodically pursuing the goal.
Writing · Agentic AI · May 11, 2026Can’t believe this is still running. Codex is a BEAST.
A short public receipt from the moment long-running Codex work started feeling less like a chat and more like durable infrastructure.
Writing · Agentic AI · May 2, 2026Maintenance of model providers, default reasoning providers, model speed defaults
A short note on provider drift, reasoning defaults, model-speed choices, and why agentic systems need a caretaker layer.
Writing · AI Economics · Apr 28, 2026Why more intelligence doesn’t automatically mean more money
A short Advisory Hour note on token maxing, output volume, and why AI work has to convert into economic value.
Writing · AI Image Notes · Apr 27, 2026This is still evolving at a fast clip.
A short note on ChatGPT image generation, character form, and what happens when style references become compressed observations.
Writing · OpenClaw Systems · Apr 21, 2026Upcoming weekend project idea: a smallNN powers the puppets
A short build note on embodied avatars, tiny neural controllers, and a layered OpenClaw world bridge architecture.
Writing · AI Tools · Apr 12, 2026OpenAI’s Codex should have elasticity on your message caps for bad weather days
A short note on tool limits, weather, and momentum in the daily rhythm of AI-assisted work.
Writing · Agentic AI · Apr 12, 2026Took dog for a walk and came back to a prefab studio builder
A short note on returning from a dog walk to an AI-built tileset prefab editor, and the weird compression of weekend-scale work.
Writing · Experiment Journal · Mar 11, 2026Journal of chatting with 5.4 as it unpacks a binary from 26 years ago.
A long-form experiment journal following an AI model as it unpacks a decades-old DOS binary from one file outward.
Writing · Personal Essay · Feb 17, 2026A mere human wrote this, part 1
A breakfast-table essay on the novelty of typing with human fingers while agentic work keeps finishing elsewhere.