# etsy store (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover etsy store. Page: Feed: --- ## [Tools That Pause the Loop](https://www.plainlystated.com/2026/tools-that-pause-the-loop/) _2026-06-03 · plainlystated_ In a chat interface, text is the natural medium. The user is driving, and free-form text is the right tool for “here’s where I want to go next.” But sometimes the AI is the one that needs something specific from the user, and the moment that happens, text flips from the obvious choice to a bad one: ambiguous, high-friction, and one more thing the model has to parse and… ## [AI As Externalized Context](https://www.plainlystated.com/2026/ai-as-externalized-context/) _2026-05-12 · plainlystated_ Like most devs, I keep a mental backlog of useful-to-me project ideas. In my younger (pre-kids) days, I’d easily spend 20 or 30 hours a week playing around with personal projects, interesting programming languages, or new frameworks. As I grew and felt more constraints on my personal time, that changed; it became a few hours here-and-there, spread sparsely. Personal dev projects became…