AI Taught Me a Phrase: Slow Iteration
Today, AI taught me a phrase I had not expected: slow iteration.
The Real Question Begins After the Trojan Horse Works
We treat “it worked” as the end of the story. The Odyssey treats it as the beginning.
When Cleverness Becomes Infrastructure
The smarter AI becomes, the less willing we should be to outsource the choice of what it serves.
Execution Is No Longer the Bottleneck—Turning Ideas into Systems Is
AI makes ideas easier to execute. It also moves the real bottleneck.
Rest Is Part of the AI Stack
The better you get at AI, the easier it is to overwork.
AI Native Systems
Sonnet 5.5: Higher Effort Isn’t Always Better
Sonnet 5.5 shows why higher effort is not always better. A concrete checkout example helps distinguish a wrong answer from an agent that did more than the task required.
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Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain; The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding; Show HN: Halo – A Personal AI with On-Device Harness, Memory and Browser AgentMeta puts its AI assistant on a keychain; The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding; Show HN: Halo – A Personal AI with On-Device Harness, Memory and Browser Agent
AI Native Systems
October 2, 2026Karpathy's New Advice: Ask AI to Build a Tool for Understanding
A close reading of Karpathy's advice on AI output: clearer writing, diagrams, interactive HTML and bespoke videos—and how to ask an agent to help you understand its work.
AI Native Systems
October 2, 2026Gemini 4 Argon Is Announced. Can You Actually Use It?
A dated check of Google's announcement and public API catalog, with a practical route from a launch to access you can use.
Personal Operating System
September 30, 2026OpenAI Dot: Make It Playable
A ceramic courier becomes a playable world, a website, and a journey you can replay. A hands-on Dot project, with an honest account of the work behind the film.
