The Spigot
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
On Agents and Harnesses
I run a personal agent called Saarthi. It is built on OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework. I have configured Saarthi around my own information processing
Read essayChatbots are driving a generational divide
Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a shift in behavior among the people I work with in India. Bolder career moves, pivots to free-lancing, open
Read essayThe Smiley Face Won
In February 2023, I stood in front of my engineering team and showed them a slide with a Shoggoth on it.
Read essayExchanging Insight for Output
I’ve spent the couple of years helping teams adopt AI tools while using them heavily myself. One pattern keeps showing up, and I don’t think we’re talking
Read essayCursor vs. Claude Code on Token Costs
Work by Krunal and his team at Jeavio found that Cursor is significantly more expensive (when it comes to Tokens) than Claude Code.
Read essayWhy multi-modal embeddings are a big deal.
I was walking the dog and listening to a podcast (as you do) when the topic of Anthropic's recent entanglements with the Pentagon came up. I half-remembered
Read essayGoverning AI-Assisted Engineering
Amazon held a mandatory engineering meeting yesterday to address a pattern of outages linked to AI-assisted code changes. Their SVP acknowledged that site
Read essayWho Gets to Decide?
The Anthropic vs. Pentagon standoff can be seen as both a contractual dispute and another skirmish in the never-ending culture war that has consumed public
Read essayLiving With a Personal Agent
Last week I introduced Saarthi, my OpenClaw agent. I've been adding tasks steadily: synthesizing newsletters, monitoring prediction markets, writing more
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