Boundary Work, Not Castles
On the two ways to build with AI — and why only one of them lasts.
Unix reimagined for the age of AI
On the two ways to build with AI — and why only one of them lasts.
All of the assumptions behind Open Source are breaking simultaneously.
An AI assistant doesn't require 400,000+ lines of code. Small C CLI tools, Unix pipes, local inference on Apple Silicon.
Autonomous coding with a shell loop, plain text memory, and version control that makes everything reversible.
Git records the what and attaches a why. ito flips it. 15 commands instead of 150.
Complexity is the default. Simplicity is a decision.