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 Spigot
I keep thinking about how we ended up here.
Read essayWhat if ASI Leads to Stasis?
I recently read and reviewed Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir, a noir detective novel set in a world ruled by Titans, humans made immortal and superhuman through
Read essayRoadtrippin’
Fifteen hours alone in a minivan will take your mind to strange places.Last weekend, as I drove from the Gulf Shore back home, mine wandered from gas station
Read essayThe Future is Here..
It's just not very evenly distributed ..
Read essayGoogle, Microsoft and the Search Wars
A demo cost Google's shareholders $100bn dollars last week. Why?
Read essayBen Thomson’s “4 Horsemen of the Tech Recession”
In the last month, we have had huge layoffs across technology, yet the "real economy" seems robust. What is going on?
Read essayThe Limits of Generative AI
AI is having a moment. The emergence of Generative AI models showcased by ChatGPT, DALL-E, and others has caused much excitement and angst.
Read essayBetween Rock and a.. podcast?
Just because you can do it doesn't make it a great business model. Take music streaming, for example.
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 Forgiveness in UX Design
As engineers and designers, we need to focus on building products that have empathy and forgiveness for their users.
Read essayThe problem with Web 3.0 – It’s the Stories
The importance of effective narratives and why the Web 3.0 movement may struggle.
Read essayAdventures in Web 3.0 #1 – Say My Name!
I bought my first NFT today - I am the proud owner of rushiluhar.eth. It was an interesting experience. Quite similar, in some ways, to creating my first
Read essayDigital Transformation
Benedict Evans, as usual, provides an insightful view of the "Digital Transformation" story. While crypto, machine learning, NFTs, and drones may generate the
Read essayCultivating Range: Lessons for Startups in a Wicked World
I recently read David Epstein’s book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The book focuses on how to cultivate broad thinking
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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