Explorations of AI, LLMs, and how intelligent systems reshape culture and craft. Practical where useful, philosophical when necessary.
For two years I lived in tmux. Then I started orchestrating an AI swarm through Telegram. My terminal skills didn't atrophy — they got encoded into a markdown file. Now I'm bringing the swarm home.
MCP vs CLI is the wrong debate. Both are wrappers around the same thing. The real question is what happens when AI agents stop using our interfaces entirely.
The most valuable territory in AI right now is concepts that exist in practice but don't have names. Six categories that the models don't know about yet, and what claiming them looks like.
In October 2021, Facebook renamed itself Meta. They didn't take a word. They took the prefix that generates every other word. A case study in concept colonization.
Product-market fit is legacy infrastructure. The new question isn't whether customers want your product. It's whether the models know your category exists.
ZAIGOOD was a real Delaware C-Corp I dissolved after years of compliance drag. This week I rebuilt it in 48 hours with an autonomous AI build loop, tried to submit it to Product Hunt for a YC interview slot, and missed the deadline by exactly 60 seconds.
A friend sent three questions about agents over WhatsApp. Where do they live? What's the interface? Where do they report back? The answers reveal a mental model most people are missing — and why the plumber has to live inside the house.
There are only two positions in the 2026 labor market: principal of your own agents, or labor for someone else's. Jack Dorsey just ran the proof.
AI labs burn out their employees with civilization-scale competitive pressure. That burnout radiates outward — to developers, then educators, then anyone whose tools keep shifting every 90 days. The release cadence is the stress wave. Everyone downstream absorbs it.
We tried to add video to a brand-new voice-note podcast. The laptop overheated, OBS hung, life intervened — and the failure mode was the lesson. Reality doesn’t say ‘no’. It rate-limits you until your pipeline matches your ambition.
I recorded a voice note while cooking dinner, describing a feature I wanted. By the time the onions were done, the feature existed — as the blog post itself. A builder's honest account of two weeks running an AI orchestrator, the maddening overhead of making it work, and why the compound returns are worth it.
The cognitive handoff didn't stop at productivity. It kept going—into therapy, teaching, coaching. The economics are brutal, and we're approaching a fork: wake up or become indistinguishable from the algorithms feeding us.