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
Karpathy'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.
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Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design; The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding; My Thoughts on AI and LLMsShow HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design; The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding; My Thoughts on AI and LLMs
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.
AI Native Systems
September 30, 2026OpenAI Halved My $200 Plan, So I Priced My Own AI Bill
OpenAI cut Pro 200 from 20x to 10x and said it nets out at half the API dollars. I priced 30 days of my own Codex and Claude Code logs at list price: the subscription is turning into a cloud bill, and the line item that matters is the re-read.
