ramblings
Mostly me thinking out loud about building with AI. I'm figuring it out as I go, so treat these as field notes rather than expertise.
some of this is proper writing. some of it is a shower thought that escaped. rated in brain cells consumed.
worth a read
- what is this feeling?i'm pretty sure i automated myself into boredom.
- zog do graph engineeringpretty sure we're just rediscovering things at this point.
- same soup, different spooni rebuilt the same app eight different ways, because i'm weird
- i think i'm a mad scientistsometimes i accidentally do good things
- rag is just an openbook testwhile learning about ai, i asked ai to build me a course to create a rag pipeline for my ai textbook, so ai could help me learn ai better...
- we are the patterni'm afraid of being left behind, and i don't think i'm alone
- this is walter's flatthe automations say so
- no more excusesi forgot the laundry. wife was displeased. i have either solved the problem, or created many more
- i have my own site nowa fruitless effort? probably, but it's mine
- the doorbell speakethi gave the doorbell a voice, now what?
- keeping agents accountableguardrails, hooks, and why the audit trail should fall out of the process.
- say less, fam: an mcp explainerthe card-reader analogy that finally made it click.
- more experiments, more spending (in the name of science)eight team configurations, one problem: context.
- you're not behinda free 600-page guide, an ai study partner, and permission to catch up at your own pace.
- disposable software, accountable softwarewhy the framework matters once someone else has skin in the game.
- from driving the loop to being in the loophow building with agents changed what my job in the process actually is.
- how the friday workflow evolvedbuilt, rebuilt, and what broke in between.
- more ideas than timebringing an engineering mindset (and a strict framework) to building with ai.
- building wake up & breathethe full writeup: 400+ classes, one very relieved pilates business.
- a 22-year gmail cleanupwhat two decades of inbox actually looks like, and what i did about it.
- the way we've always done itwhy stakeholders can't see past the old process until something real is in front of them.
- i automated the nagginga local agent that chases quiet email threads so i don't have to.
- teaching my doorbell to talkthe vision: a house that answers the door when i can't.
- building jarvis (minus the weaponry)giving the flat a personality with local models, memory, and home assistant.
- the prototype is the business caseproving an idea is worth building by building it.