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.
Personal Operating System
OpenAI 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.
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Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior; Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain; Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computerUnderstanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior; Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain; Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer
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.
Business Strategy
September 27, 2026My Daughter Ran a Stall at Open House Fall Fair. I Learned More Than She Did
My daughter's busy fair stall reminded me to connect customer needs, teamwork, and technical work to a useful result.
AI Native Systems
September 6, 2026I Put GPT-6 Astra to Work
Six observations from using GPT-6 Astra for a complex Azure, Linux and Windows deployment, everyday writing, and the work between tools.
