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Committed thinking — essays I've decided I mean.

2026

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. 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. Raising Humans in an AI World What do you teach a three-year-old when the ground is shifting under everyone's feet? Why AI Can't Shop for You Yet The properties that matter most in fashion aren't properties of the product — they're properties of the relationship between the product and the person. No protocol fixes that. Convex and the Reactive Database Paradigm How Convex challenges our mental models of databases—not relational, not NoSQL, but something new. When Do We Stop Talking About AI? The specific exhaustion of a generation that can feel the stitch where human thinking and machine fluency got sewn together. Photography as Interface What camera mechanics teach us about designing for attention, perception, and control. Why Everyone Should Have a SOUL.md The case for documented identity in an AI-saturated world. Not just for agents — for humans too. Rapid Generative Prototyping: Design in the Post-Figma Era Design is no longer artifact creation—it's constraint architecture. The three-layer model for the agentic economy. What Cameras Taught Me About Software (and Life) The arc of creative tools: diverge to learn, converge to create. Why more gear made me worse, and what that means for building software. The Multi-Agent Moment A technical breakdown of multi-agent orchestration: Claude's Agent Teams, OpenAI's Agents SDK, Google Antigravity, Gas Town, Beads, and the community alternatives. Design Physics: When Interfaces Meet Agents Traditional UX has a hidden assumption: humans on both sides. That assumption is breaking. The SaaSpocalypse Anthropic wiped $285 billion off software stocks this week. The market is panicking about AI replacing tools. But the real disruption is what it means for the people who build them. Code Owns Truth We obsess over prompt engineering when we should obsess over constraint engineering. The prompt is a request. The constraints are the physics. The code is what ships. Proof, Not Truth: Epistemic Humility in Knowledge Systems We don't sell answers. We sell receipts. The receipts are what earn the right to call something true. Self-Healing Systems: The Holographic Event Pattern Every event must carry everything a repair bot needs to act without asking questions. Don't scatter breadcrumbs — ship holograms. Hello World First post. Why I built this blog and what I hope it becomes.