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  • Apr 07, 2026

    The Hard Problems Nobody Has Solved

    Four unsolved problems blocking the agentic future: correctness, architecture drift, context scaling, and judgment.

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  • Mar 31, 2026

    Bash Owns the Loop

    A durable wrapper pattern for autonomous agents: Bash owns state, validation, recovery, and completion.

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  • Mar 29, 2026

    What Pretext Reinforced About AI Loops

    Pretext reinforces what serious AI-assisted engineering looks like: hard constraints, real oracles, tiny repros, rejection.

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  • Mar 21, 2026

    Optimizing Skills

    Two weeks of agent benchmarks taught me that variance is a cost problem, and the real fix was better tooling.

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  • Mar 11, 2026

    AI-Native Dev Teams Start With Structure, Not Models

    AI-native dev teams don't start with better models. They start with structure machines can actually read.

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  • Mar 10, 2026

    The Bubble and the Long Game

    What the printing press taught me about AI, FOMO, and the decades-long game of technological diffusion.

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  • Mar 10, 2026

    Claude Code with Multiple Accounts on One Machine

    Use Claude Code with your normal login or z.ai via shell wrappers, without swapping config or leaking tokens.

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  • Mar 06, 2026

    The Post-Copyright Era of Software

    Software was already an awkward fit for copyright. AI turns that mismatch into a full-blown regime change.

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  • Mar 04, 2026

    Explore once, script forever: turning web runs into scripts

    Let an agent discover a messy web UI flow once, then export the exact tool commands as a deterministic bash script.

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  • Mar 02, 2026

    The Hidden Language of Search

    AI answer engines rewrite your prompts into queries. Understanding this translation layer explains the weird keywords in your GSC.

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