Shipping Fixes Everything
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 down unsuspecting humans named Josh. I'm aware of "claws" and I know I could probably just boot up Claude Code with a /goal or /loop prompt like: build and maintain an awesome website,…
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 curious about their onboarding wizard . Their pivot from analytics to self-driving systems mirrors what I've been working on for the last couple of years, which has…
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 letting the agent work on itself. Super meta, but didn't quite go as planned considering the guardrails I have in place around the size of PRs. Agent work tends to be…
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 about it to your adoring fan base. I've done it in the past . My buddy Geoff still does it . As of late, it seems like what's old is new again on the web. Rather than bore you with some navel…
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 on good. What sucks the most is when they abuse something that's intended to bring people together. Case in point, an invite system. It exists to allow somebody the chance to get…
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 a trivial amount more, so my local access tends to be extremely thin. But not so thin that a rogue agent couldn't do a little damage. That all said, I am constantly…
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 "how-to" content is easy to slop with a robot, so I'd rather write about things that the clankers can't. In a word, I'm just trying to write more human . While I…
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 jokes after only a few conversations. Now that I can practically recite all of the dumb shit robots say, I'm starting to see it more and more from humans. That's not to say I see humans using…
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, flexibility, and autonomy. Being more productive doesn't negate my freedom. Having flexibility doesn't directly impact productivity. I'm unsure why the advent of AI has…
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 the shelf solution, often software as a service (SaaS) and would wire that up. Because it's so easy to spin up projects now, the SaaS world looks like a garage sale, littered with too many options.…
My .zshrc from my world famous dotfiles has a couple of lines with the comment "because we can't have nice things". Both are for privacy with the command-line tools I use. One is specific for GitHub's gh , the other is a bit more generic, but allegedly utilized by Claude Code. As I sink deeper into the AI psychosis, I've been dabbling more and more with unattended sessions. I primarily run them…
Call me crazy, but I feel like I've been reading the same fucking article over and over again the last few months. My main consumption website is Hacker News , specifically the front page. It's flooded with "AI" content, no shocker there. What's been starting to not sit right with me is the clustering of themes. Sure, when a topic is on the front page, I'm sure there are bottom feeders that see…
While I mess with a bunch of different agentic coding setups, Claude Code is my daily driver when I want to be productive. At some point, pasting images into Claude Code was working fine for me on Linux, then it stopped. Honestly don't remember when, but I'm guessing it may have been when I switched back to Debian from Arch Linux. Fast forward a bit to recent times. I decided to give Ghostty a…