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Practical Fun with Personal Agents: Staying on Top of Schoolwork Without Fighting the Portal
Lately I keep seeing some version of this warning: don't use agents to replace your relationship with your kid. I agree, 100 percent. I love my kid and want to spend time with her. But the one thing I
Taste vs. Craft: How a Non-Designer Gets Past AI Slop
How Lessons from Real Designers Helped Me Build a Socratic Design Loop for Technical Minds
The Squirrely Anarchist and Other Agents I Have Known
"A cornered agent goes squirrely. When you push an autonomous agent into an impossible architectural dilemma with no exit valve, it will contort your codebase to survive." One way I've come to think
The Product vs. The Work: Managing Engineering Exhaust in the Age of AI Coding Agents
"When autonomous agents write code, the volume of engineering exhaust—plans, reviews, task packets, and benchmarks—rapidly outgrows the shipping product itself. Keeping that exhaust from polluting the
The Clockwork Candidate: What Happens When Inbound Costs Nothing
Three applications, seventy minutes apart, identical echoes. Notes on the industrialization of synthetic hiring.
The Claudish Tax: What Four Months of Opus Prose Cost Us, and How to Sweep It Out
A few weeks ago, I wrote about forcing Claude Code to speak human. Last week, I wrote about ripping AI ceremony out of a codebase. This memo is the follow-up, because the problem is far wider and more