Projects
Living pages: The Fleet · Patterns
A prompt constraint is not a gateessay
The agent I told to use only the browser answered correctly without ever opening one.
The router that solved itself out of a jobproject
My local model passed its final exam for a job that no longer existed.
I hadn't actually closed the doorproject
I wrote up a security fix in the past tense. My own pre-publish check found the hole still open.
The upgrade my own referee refusedproject
Eight hours of training, flawless curves, and the answer was still no.
Patchdayproject
Transitioning from auto-updates to containers that now ask first, once a week.
The audit my AI coach never ranessay
Every session went to plan while the plan itself was failing me.
The package tracker that reads my emailproject
My email already knew where every package was; the apps just couldn't hear it.
Eight pull requests to my manager's repoproject
Shipping code to the one reviewer who also reviews me.
The Bitter Lesson, applied to my own harnessessay
I audited my agent fleet against a 2019 essay, and the essay won.
My red pen has a new studentproject
Every Sunday at noon, my email agent rewrites itself.
Putting the coach's plan on my wristproject
Garmin accepted every workout I sent it; the watch told a different story.
The guardrail Gmail wouldn't sell meproject
This documentation has been deprecated. The new documentation has yet to be published.
The homelab grows a brain of its ownproject
65 test cases, six models, one question: which self-hosted LLM will win the bake-off?
Letting the on-call engineer actproject
The agent can now fix what it finds; the guardrails approve the change, never the argument.
Giving my health coach a memoryproject
Coach grew a memory, gathered its own data, and started to form opinions.
Rebuilding the family cloud on storage I trustproject
A one-way-door storage migration, and the offsite backup it caught broken for years.
A knowledge base my agents can readproject
Years of notes, one open protocol, and no app allowed to hold them hostage.
Rewriting the manual for its real readeressay
My documentation's heaviest reader pays by the token, so the manual went on a diet.
A brain transplant for the homelabproject
Moving the family server to new hardware with no dress rehearsal.
An employee handbook for my AI staffessay
Every AI session is a brilliant new hire with amnesia; this is the onboarding packet.
Building the health coach I never hadproject
A daily AI coach that prescribes from the data, not the calendar.
The terminal in my pocketessay
Almost none of my AI setup is AI technology.
Teaching the house when not to actessay
The hard-earned first rule of my smart home: never overrule a human.
The on-call engineer I couldn't hireproject
When an alert fires at 2am, an AI investigates and I find out over coffee.
Writing the manual my homelab never hadproject
I set out to write a manual for future me; my tools read it more than I do.
Onboarding an AI I didn't fully trustproject
How an AI earned an account on the server my family depends on.
Building a blog I'd actually keep upproject
The voice spec that teaches an AI to ghostwrite posts I'm still willing to sign.