Building Personal Harnesses
Small experiments with model choice, memory and retrieval give me better questions before committing to an agent project.
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What the repair robots remembered
What a robot repair-shop experiment revealed about agent memory, completed work, model choice, and the cost of fewer tool calls.
Read essayThe 80/20 Inversion
How AI projects shift effort from the initial build toward evals, experiments, and learning from real users.
Read essayA story of two patches
A roof repair and a WordPress migration prompt a reflection on AI agents, rebuilding software, and the trade-off between experience and dependency.
Read essayThis Is Fine
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation while exposing the accumulated fragility of software and the ambiguity of agent authorization.
Read essayThe Lego Model: How Tool Calling Changes the Way We Build AI Applications
"What should I read next?" seems like a simple question. But answering it well requires knowing what the user is currently reading, what they've finished
Read essayDo agentic coding tools make us less productive?
Are agentic coding tools like Cursor making us less productive?
Read essayBook Review – A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
“A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout is a short and thought-provoking book about practical software development.
Read essayNatural Language Processing Made Easy with GPT-3
Large Language Models like GPT-3 are powerful general purpose natural language processing tools.
Read essayGeorge Saunders on Feedback
Feedback is an integral part of working in a team and managing people.
Read essayOn crypto outages
What to do when your decentralized, scalable, performant blockchain turns out to be not so scalable, sort-of-centralized and not so performant?
Read essayOn Roblox’s Outage
Roblox is one of the world's biggest game platforms. With over fifty million daily users, it is a wildly popular platform to build and play games.
Read essayOn Modern Web Development
Tom MacWright wrote a much discussed article on the state of modern web development a couple of weeks ago.
Read essay4 Waves of AI – And why they matter
I can’t open a newspaper or visit my friendly local bookstore without coming across a think piece about why AI is a *BIG DEAL* and how it changes everything.
Read essayDo you know your dependencies?
A contributor on GitHub finds an abandoned, but popular JS library and commits code that targets a Bitcoin wallet made by a particular company. Hundreds of
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