What Are Test Scores Actually Worth?
I built a school data product for parents. What I built, how my thinking evolved, what an axiom actually is, and where the data runs out.
Software is no longer scarce. Judgment is.
I build systems, interfaces, and identities that survive AI abundance.
This is a space for thinking about judgment, systems, and design in an era where execution is cheap and discernment isn’t.
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- Your Infrastructure Spec Already Moved Into Your Code Infrastructure config is collapsing into application code — the same pattern as build tooling a decade ago. Void showed us the destination. The question is whether you want to ride the platform or steal the pattern.
- What's Left: Software Engineering in the Agent Era When anyone can spin up a coding agent and ship something workable, what actually matters? Not the word soup — the real answer.
- Your Vault, Your Rules: Password Managers, Sovereignty, and Agents On the quiet ethos connecting Buttercup, Enpass, pass, and VeraCrypt — and why it matters more now that AI agents need your credentials too.
- Pervasive AI: What Happens When Your Assistant Never Logs Off I've spent a month running a personal AI agent on a Mac Mini. The technology works. The promises don't — at least not the way we were told they would.
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- The Fork in the Stack The agent era is splitting infrastructure into two camps: those building new primitives and those retrofitting old ones. The bet you make reveals what you think agents are.
- The Context Engineering Stack I built an internal context engine for our 1,765-doc knowledge base. My teammate independently found a better one. The difference was a reranking step I hadn't thought of. Here's what the emerging context engineering stack actually looks like — and why no single tool gets it right yet.
- Named Things: A Glossary of Compressed Wisdom The named laws, razors, and principles that keep showing up in engineering and strategy. Each one is a concept compressed into a name — human-language embeddings, built over centuries instead of training runs.