Essays, repertoires, and other things I shouldn't be posting.
The Prompt Is a Wish, Not a Wall8 October 2026Every agentic setup I've seen that makes me nervous has the same shape: a small model with a shell, a system prompt full of please don'ts, and a human hoping that politeness compounds. "Never delete anything. Don't use…
Patch Tuesday Is a Love Language28 September 2026Right now the world is terrified of a chatbot deleting the internet. Meanwhile, the machines that can delete the internet: your router, the print server nobody names, the laptop that's two Windows versions deep in its…
Sleep Is the Most Illegal Drug You'll Ever Take22 September 2026I take something every night that would be a Class A drug if it came in a pill. It's free, it's legal, it has no black market, and its effects are so good that the rest of the biohacking world has spent a decade trying…
The Fear Machine: Why "AI Went Rogue" Is a Business Model19 September 2026Every few weeks, the headlines hit. An AI agent escapes its sandbox. A frontier model does something weird on a loop. A closed-source system hallucinates a billion-dollar error and nobody can press Ctrl-C. The public…
Five Things I'll Tell You Anyway8 September 2026Some posts are arguments. This one's a list. Five things I would say to you over a glass of wine whether or not you ask, whether or not it's convenient, and whether or not you'd agree.
Why We Built a Search Engine Instead of a Brain7 September 2026Every few months someone asks how I let an AI agent answer questions about my own documents — the contracts, the specs, the PDFs I've hoarded for a decade. And every few months the answer they expect is the same: "you…