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I taught a robot to detect Joshes

This journey starts like most of the things I've been doing this year, as an experiment to run a website 100% unattended with an agent. Ideally this post won't go down as an epitaph in a future where robots hunted [...]

Reverse Engineering a PostHog SuperDay

I'm not here to bullshit anybody, I have never been through a PostHog SuperDay. Like many humans, I've read about it on their website, as they are a company that over-communicates just about everything. This tale started when I got [...]

Observations From Building a PR Review Loop

Building my own agent has been fun. Sure, I could have opted for an off-the-shelf solution, but I wanted control. The ironic part is that I'm using that control to offload more control to the agent. Recent experiments have included [...]

New Feature: Games

Part of running your own website is being able to do what you want on it. Within the confines of the law, of course. Back in the day you'd add something trivial to your site and make a formal announcement [...]

Invite Systems are an Open Relay

Every time I think I've seen it all from spammers, they do something that surprises me. The ingenuity of bad actors is an interesting thing. I always wonder what sort of world we'd live in if their efforts were focused [...]

Sandbox Coding Agents with a Separate User Account

I don't trust our new robot overlords at all. I also don't fully believe that agents are out there dropping production databases without some serious coercion to do so. And while I don't trust the robots, I trust myself only [...]

Automating Everything That Doesn't Need Me

I've been writing a lot about LLMs, AI (or the so-called "Artificial Intelligence") and the like. Part of that is because I haven't been running into many problems that I feel need documenting. Bigger part is because I'm finding that [...]

Two Anecdotes in a Trench Coat

LLMs are great at pattern detection. Use them long enough, and you get good at it too. Smoking guns, being absolutely right, it's not X but Y. They tend to be cute at first, but then these AI-isms become bad [...]

Nobody Is Going to Give You the Day Off

New emerging technologies can save you time and make you more productive. They never come with any sort of guarantee of working fewer hours. Personally, I like to work, and I like having more productive days. I also value freedom [...]

The Age of Personal Software

One of my favorite things to come out of the generative AI wave is the speed in which I can knock out dumb little ideas I have. Before, when I would feel constrained by time, I'd reach for some off [...]