tools
39 essays on this topic.
- The Personalised System Era
AI coding agents didn't just make developers faster. They changed who gets to have a bespoke system.
- Let the OS Schedule, Let Your Tool Dispatch
The moment I stopped building scheduling into my tools, everything got simpler.
- The Experiment Loop Without the GPU
Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch project is being read as a demo of what H100s can do overnight. It's actually a discipline for doing rigorous work on anything measurable.
- I Didn't Mean to Kill My Todo App
A coding assistant quietly made three productivity apps redundant. Not by replacing them — by making context collapse the boundaries between them.
- Exa Indexes WeChat
WeChat is supposed to be a walled garden. Exa didn't get the memo.
- The Problem With Clever Browser Automation
The most sophisticated solution to a problem is usually a sign you haven't found the right abstraction yet.
- The Failure Mode of AI Advice Isn't Hallucination
The failure mode of AI advice isn't hallucination. It's that it agrees with you. Here's the architecture that fixes it.
- Building My Own Consulting Toolkit Before Day One
Most consultants arrive at a new firm and learn their tools from colleagues. I tried something different.
- Claude Code is Not a Coding Agent
Why I use Claude Code for everything except coding: cognitive compiler for strategy, decisions, and understanding.