7 posts
SYSTEMS
The cheapest way to understand what LLMs are actually for: stop taking courses, pick one repetitive thing you do every week, and map the trail of little jobs around the part you love. Three worked examples from three very different jobs.
SYSTEMS
Hank Green paused three channels this week over how much he had been leaning on ChatGPT. I found my own line the expensive way, by shelving a novel I let five agents write, and it turns out code and prose sit on opposite sides of it.
BUILD LOG
How I organize and run a single focused day of building, end to end
BUILD LOG
I tried about fifteen to twenty AI tools over the past year. Six are still in my weekly rotation. Here's the three-question framework I use to decide whether a new tool earns a permanent place.
On the gap between seeing the ruins and understanding how they were built, and what that eighth-century anonymous poet has to do with how we're using AI right now.
Every great civilisation adapted to change. But adaptation has real costs and real losers. The Khmer Empire and the AI moment we're living through have more in common than you'd think.
Unpacking Andrej Karpathy's No Priors conversation on coding agents, AGENTS.md files, AutoResearch, and what the shift to declarative workflows means for solo builders.