The Default in a Trust Prompt
Two folder-trust prompts ask for confirmation, but their selected defaults take the user in different directions.
AI
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46articles in this collection2025–2026
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Will Mathematics Follow Programming?
ChatGPT fixing my scripts felt like cheating. Using it repeatedly made me realize its capabilities would not stop at the chores.
The OpenCode hack
OpenCode reported unauthorized access to a legacy hosted console holding customers’ own OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys.
Comparing PDF readers for my finance app
I compared eight readers on 78 financial PDFs. The results show what I still need to check before trusting my capital gains estimates.
Planning My Work Around ChatGPT Pro Allowances
Using ChatGPT Pro taught me to separate baseline access, promotional boosts, and resets when planning coding work.
Dot is helpful, but not clever enough yet
Dot made airline miles easier to understand. It also made me ask what it takes to trust a personal agent with work beyond a chat.
Building a San Francisco map feels a bit like cheating
I’ve always wanted a small, animated SVG map of just San Francisco. The city’s open data was already there. Codex made the rest feel easy.
The Difficult Tradeoffs Behind an AI Slowdown
Pacing AI could give safety research time to catch up. Making that work means confronting competition, model limits, and the cost of caution.
What’s There to Learn from WordPress?
The WP Engine fight, the Valkey fork, and agent-written code raise a harder question: what keeps an open-source project honest?
Choosing When Hermes Agent Automations Need an LLM
I use Hermes Agent to interpret and configure automations, then let Home Assistant or a script execute repeatable actions with visible failure states.
AI Pricing Is Becoming UX
GPT-5.6 turns capability into a price ladder, while Codex Spark turns speed into a separate button. AI pricing is becoming part of the interface.
What Claude’s Guardrails Teach Me About Building Agents
Claude refusing a request tells me about one response. Before I connect an agent to real tools, I need to know what a mistaken call could do.
AI-Generated Code Review: What Reviewers Should Still Block
Models make awkward code cheaper to replace. Review should block future risk and leave private ideas of neat to automated conventions.
The Best Coding Agent Is the One You Can Keep Using
Grok Build produces useful patches, but its weekly limit changes how I use it. The harness and quota now matter more than the model.
Learning Rust with Claude Code Through Local Hardware Projects
Claude Code lowers the cost of being a Rust beginner. It kept two local-hardware projects moving while I learned the language inside them.
GLM Is Cheap. Steering It Isn't.
A lower token price pushed me toward GLM, but slow responses and manual mode switches made the work harder to steer.
I Can't Avoid the Price Gap Anymore
My company merged separate AI tool budgets into one shared pool. That's when Opus versus GLM stopped being an abstract question.
Tripsy Now Has a CLI (and an MCP)
Tripsy released an official CLI and MCP server in May 2026. The CLI is the better tool. It replaces the unsupported SQLite writes I used before.
How to Connect Hermes Agent to Home Assistant
Two environment variables and a gateway restart. I said 'turn off all my lights' and they went off two seconds later.
Document Your Quirks: Why CLAUDE.md Changes Everything
I spent 45 minutes teaching Claude a fix I already knew. Putting that project quirk in CLAUDE.md stopped the same rediscovery next time.
Origin Made Me Review Work Copilot Already Handles
I tried Origin as an alternative to Copilot Money. More financial products did not make up for the transaction review it handed back to me.
October's Layoff Numbers Did Not Prove AI Did the Work
October's report counted 31,039 cuts attributed to AI. It recorded what employers said—not whether deployed systems actually replaced the work.
One Claude Code Install Is Enough
My machine has one Claude Code executable and one updater. Here is how I check the path, remove conflicts, and keep it that way.
Meta is Cutting 600 AI Roles to Speed Up Decisions
Meta cut roughly 600 AI jobs while still hiring for TBD Lab. I read the reorganization as a shift in priorities, not an AI spending retreat.
ChatGPT Atlas Brings Agents Into the Browser
After using Comet for search and summaries, I am curious about how Atlas can make browser tasks easier while keeping decisions clear.
Claude Code Comes to the Web and iOS
Claude Code on the web changes coding from an editor interaction into delegated work. That matters more than adding another interface.
Sora Makes Me Curious About Creative Tools and Context
Trying Sora made me think about creative experimentation, source context, and how feeds can help people understand generated video.
What Samsung’s Tiny Model Taught Me About Task Fit
Samsung's 7-million-parameter TRM beat much larger models on specific reasoning benchmarks by revising its answer up to 16 times.
Claude Haiku 4.5: Cheap and Fast
I use Claude Haiku for small refactors, review, and debugging. Its lower cost and faster responses matter more there than deeper reasoning.
What Is a Website For When AI Gives the Answer?
AI search changes how readers find answers. Maintaining this site makes me curious about citations, discovery, and the value of firsthand writing.
What Anthropic’s Fair-Use Ruling Means for AI Builders
The ruling distinguished transformative AI training from acquiring source material, offering builders a useful lesson in data provenance.
We Rebuilt the UI Instead of Refactoring It
A new data-model entity touched several old pages. Rebuilding those UI components was faster than carrying their Flow types and old assumptions forward.
What AI Productivity Claims Tell Me About Work
AI can change how teams work. I want to understand the deployed workflow before treating a hiring decision as evidence of automation.
Windsurf Simplified Its Pricing During Reported OpenAI Talks
Windsurf removed flow action credits and cut team pricing while OpenAI acquisition talks were being reported. I cared more about the simpler bill.
GPT-4.1 Needed Fewer Retry Loops in My Editors
GPT-4.1's benchmark jump showed up in my Windsurf and Cursor use as cleaner diffs and fewer back-and-forth retries.
The Small Models Were the Interesting Part of OpenAI's Leak
A leaked OpenAI lineup showed five models, but the mini and nano pricing mattered more to me than another flagship.
ChatGPT Came Within 30 Million Visits of X
Similarweb March 2025: ChatGPT at 4.55B visits, X at 4.58B. ChatGPT grew faster that month. Infrastructure, not a toy.
GitHub Copilot Adds Agent Mode and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Copilot shipped agent mode and more models. Microsoft also tightened extension licenses so some tools refuse to run in Cursor.
Making Room for More People to Learn AI
AI literacy takes access, time, and practice. I want my son to grow up curious about these tools and able to learn alongside them.
What I Learned Using Claude Code in March 2025
Claude Code for hobby refactors, Cursor at work — two tools, two jobs, and what I learned from reviewing their work.
How Claude Code Built This Blog - Part 2
Claude Code helped build the parser, generator, templates, and Cloudflare deployment. Syntax highlighting and timezones took more work.
How Claude Code Built This Blog - Part 1
I paid about $10 to see whether Claude Code could scaffold the TypeScript static-site generator behind this blog. Most of its choices held up.
Google Keeps Replacing Products Before Trust Can Compound
Replacing Assistant with Gemini fits Google's long pattern of abandoning products instead of earning trust through steady maintenance.
Public Code Gives AI More Context to Work With
Public libraries give coding agents examples, documentation, and discussions they can retrieve. Private APIs must supply that context themselves.
A Reported $20k AI Agent Is Not Cheap Labor
A 2025 report put specialized OpenAI agents at $2k–$20k a month. Even as a reported figure, that belongs in a labor budget—not a footnote.
Perplexity replaces Google Search and Apple News for me
I use Perplexity for most search and for a daily news skim. Google for the stubborn queries. Apple News lost the paywall fight.