What I think
Strong opinions. Clear receipts.
Notes on speed, building, product judgment, and where the default playbook is too slow.
Note 01
The story behind Agents Courier
Two computers on one desk. Seven trips carrying messages between them. By 11:30, the same two sessions were talking without me copying anything.
- #building
- #tools
- #ai-agents
Note 02
Looking Is Not Taking
I installed a guard so coding agents could not read my env files. It blocked a command that only lists filenames, and then it blocked a commit message describing the problem. Neither could leak anything. A guard that cannot tell discovery from disclosure does not protect your secrets, it teaches agents to work around you.
- #security
- #ai-agents
- #secrets
- #building
Note 03
No Door on This Side
The instinct is to hide the key better: blindfold the agent, encrypt the file, add a guard. The better move is to make sure the key was never on the agent's side of the wall at all. That idea is thirty years old, it has a hard ceiling, and the ceiling is the honest part.
- #security
- #ai-agents
- #architecture
- #building
Note 04
The Mind Should Wander
A digital mind with a heartbeat still needs something to think about when nobody asks it a question. The answer is not constant chatter. It is self-generated retrieval aimed at the things you once knew, quietly discarded at a hundred to one, and allowed to interrupt only when the moment can absorb it.
- #ai-agents
- #memory
- #attention
- #building
Note 05
The Long Loop
I never had a word for what I do, so I guessed. It lasted twelve days. The timeline says indie software is dying, the data says solo founding is at an all-time high, and the gap between them is where I am putting the next ten years: AI, then robotics, then a farm.
- #building
- #iteration
- #ai
- #farming
- #positioning
Note 06
Fifty-Seven Days for Fifty Karma
I had a product, the right threads, and something useful to say. Reddit said I had not earned the right to speak. Fifty-seven daily comments later, the gate opened. Iteration fixed the voice. Repetition built the skill. Consistency left the receipt.
- #iteration
- #consistency
- #pitchplus
Note 07
The Living Toolkit
My first real map of biotechnology: four domains, five tools, and one pipeline (DNA to RNA to protein) that makes the rest of the field legible.
- #biotechnology
- #agriculture
- #gene-therapy
- #learning
Note 08
Lost in the Middle
I copied an eighteen-minute talk about context rot, the way a model forgets the middle of a long context, and while chasing down who built the download tool I fell into a thirty-minute rabbit hole and forgot mine. The failure in the machine and the failure in me turned out to be the same shape. So is the fix.
- #ai-agents
- #memory
- #attention
- #building
Note 09
The Component and the Organism
A nineteen-year-old with Jeff Dean's money built a memory layer for AI, open source and well funded, doing the thing I believe in. For one bad second I thought I had been scooped. Then I saw the real shape of it: you can rent a component, but you can only grow an organism, and only one of them is worth more the longer it lives.
- #building
- #ai-agents
- #memory
- #opinion
Note 10
Be Wrong on Purpose
Three of the four things a person knows cannot be asked for. Software asks anyway, then reads the silence as emptiness. The fix is not a better question. It is a wrong answer, said out loud.
- #knowledge
- #interfaces
- #ai-agents
- #building
Note 11
Keep Shooting
Everyone reads the last three years of AI as proof the machine can one-shot anything. Read it closer: every leap came from iteration. The one-shot was never real.
- #ai
- #iteration
- #mindset
- #building
Note 12
Kill that neuron
For nine years I gave myself two commands: kill that neuron, build that neuron. It worked, then it broke. The instruction was right and the unit was wrong. You do not change a brain cell by cell. You change it road by road.
- #neuroscience
- #habits
- #neuroplasticity
Note 13
The Neural Beat: anatomy of an autonomous mind
A heart beats so the body never has to ask it. Here is how I build a mind the same way: four organs, one closing loop, thinking on its own cadence instead of waiting to be prompted.
- #ai-agents
- #architecture
- #building
Note 14
Velocity is a feature
Why this site loads before you finish blinking, and why that is a design decision, not a vanity metric.
- #speed
- #web
- #opinion
Note 15
Opinionated by default
Neutral is forgettable. A point of view is the only thing worth linking to.
- #opinion
- #building
- #voice