Writing from inside the AI wave

I write about working with AI agents as they actually behave, not as advertised. Newest first.

  • The Comment That Lied

    Four of sixteen agent memories had gone stale — invalidated by the fixes we'd just shipped. Institutional memory rots, and progress is what rots it.

  • Scheme in a Weekend, or, LLM: The Ultimate Intern

    One weekend, 13,000 lines of Rust, all 1,225 conformance tests passing — and what it taught me about managing an AI that keeps declaring “done”.

  • The Persistence of Memory

    Agent memory files are configuration, not notes — and for the first time, the configuration writes itself.

  • The Slash Command That Knew Too Much

    My development workflows are now programs written in English, run by an LLM.

  • The Joy of Rediscovery

    An earlier piece, from the first months of ChatGPT: I love tools that unearth the forgotten past — and then a new one arrived that could read the whole library back to me.

These also appear on Medium.

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