Writing
Essays and field notes on agents, memory, model behavior, tools, language, and the stranger questions underneath the work.
Coordination, safety, and what agents actually need to work.
How to Secure API Keys for AI Agents
When the AI asks you for a key, that's the exact moment to stop. The most dangerous habit in AI coding, and what to do instead.
The Agent-Ready Web: A Working Guide to Cloudflare's New Score
I pointed Cloudflare's new agent-readiness scanner at my own site. Zero of thirteen.
I Put ChatGPT in Charge of Claude Code
What happens when you use one model to orchestrate another?
What should persist, what should graduate, what agents can query.
Stop Writing Markdown. Start Writing Memory.
Markdown is optimized for human eyes. Terrible for knowledge agents need to query.
KERNEL: Self-Evolving Claude Code Configuration
How I stopped fighting my config and let it learn instead.
This AI Analyzes My Entire Life
The Synthesis Pool: a personal AI that costs $0/month to run.
Measuring models against real work instead of vibes.
Opus 4.8 vs 4.7 vs Sonnet vs Haiku: When the Expensive Model Is Worth It
A new model dropped with impressive numbers. The only question that matters: will you feel any difference in the work you actually do?
What an AI Detector Actually Measures
AI detectors promise to tell you if a machine wrote something. What they actually measure is much narrower, and shakier.
Making Claude Code and its siblings hold up under daily production use.
How to Make Claude Code Actually Work
The most capable AI coding tool available. Also completely chaotic.
Stop Copying Other People's AI Setups. Build One That's Actually Yours.
Borrowed AI workflows aren't accountable to your work. Build one that's tested against your own evidence.
Automations with Claude Code
A pattern for proactive AI on your own machine.
From Friction to Flow: Building a Command Library
Commands as cognitive offloading. Stop remembering, start invoking.
10 Things I Wish I Knew About AI Coding
Hard-won lessons from daily production use of AI coding tools.
The stranger questions underneath the tooling.