Tag: tech

A sneak peek of couch, an agentic coding workbench created by 100% agentic coding. The process of creating it was very liberating.

you-decide helps a voter work out how to vote according to what they actually care about, in the couple of hours most of us can spare. How it's structured, and how privacy, research accuracy, and full transparency drive the design.

Hot takes on current trends in AI coding. This is installment 2 of a series of 5 posts.

AI coding is all the rage; what are the basic building blocks? How should we think about its future? This is the first installment of a series of 5 posts.

A count of code, documents, issues, and commit activity across 15 repositories in my AI coding workflow, from April 20 to October 1, 2026.

AI is a great helper to help you access the world's knowledge. However, the current chatbot user interface makes research and learning harder. Have you ever felt inundated with too much information? Parley is different: you have full control of the chat, it's just a text file you can edit.

Agent skills are more than prompt folders: they are part of a deterministic shell around a stochastic model. This post walks through two ariadne patterns, skill binaries and dynamic skills, that keep that shell testable, maintainable, and in sync with the codebase.

AI is powerful, but it is not an oracle. It does not have a magic wand to create what you want exactly. You own the possibilities, and leverage AI to help at many different altitudes. Here's a concrete example of how I wrote the blog about space data centers. AI is the MATLAB, the Wikipedia, the Excel, the search engine, all packaged into a single tool that you can customize and extend. The capability is there; the human/AI interaction is still being sorted out.

With SpaceX IPO looming, let's take a look at the case of space data center, how realistic it is. As I poked around, I realize it's a matter of time before we run data centers in space, and that we really DO need Starship to pull it off economically. That is, if we look at the problem in the time frame of decades.

Saturday morning, before exercise, I asked Claude one stray question. By afternoon there was a new repo, a pensive, four issues, and a working tool I'm using to write this post.

What is an AI Native Company?

Two weeks of building the substrate underneath an AI-native personal workflow: a base agentic development environment, a personal data access layer, a credential gateway, and a private canvas where ideas form, collide, and grow. Not ready for release yet — here's a sneak peek.

Adding tool calls to Parley on a flight, watching Claude make a mess, then drawing the architecture boundary for Claude and watching it execute flawlessly within it. The eureka: Claude Code is the execution harness, Parley is the interface for human to inspect and influence — both running on the same shared filesystem state.

Reflecting on a year of tinkering and adapting to the ever changing world of AI. After a year and 400+ commits on Parley.nvim, I'm convinced the future is humans setting up the environment, with full automation of the coding inside it. Here's my journey so far.

When agentic coding lets a vim user write a custom mouse-aware floating picker because Telescope couldn't do that. The implication for SaaS: programmability stops being a nice-to-have, it becomes the moat.

An iterative spec flow built on a small Makefile and a handful of markdown files — issue, todo, lessons, specs — cuts through the opaque magic of workflow tools. The trick is treating specs as sketches that bound the agent's search space, not exact behavior to confine it. Let AI bringing in world's knowledge!

The week of February 23, 2026: Dorsey's layoffs, Cloudflare's one-engineer Next.js rewrite, Karpathy's tweet. Picking up Conductor, OpenCode, and OpenSpec over a weekend and shipping 15K lines on Parley — agentic coding is no longer the toy it was ten months ago.

LLMs are fundamentally stochastic, but that's not new — the whole ML field always was, and it worked. The interesting question is how to ground stochastic computation in deterministic domains. Two paths: build a deterministic shell around the model (coding), or apply it directly where the domain itself tolerates noise (recruiting, marketing, design).

Mainstream type systems are simultaneously too strong (closed-world assumptions hurt during change) and too weak (can't say "positive integer" or "age between 0 and 200"). For startups in unsettled domains, duck typing wins — types are a luxury you afford after product-market fit.

Andrew Grove treats management as a production system, but the deeper claim is that information workers are managers — their raw material is information, their output is influence. In modern Big Tech, being "a manager" isn't a promotion. It's just different work.

Healthcare's fragmentation isn't an accident — it's federalism plus misaligned incentives, where EHR vendors profit by locking customers in. NexHealth's Synchronizer attacks the problem at the technical layer, with the law (and a recent 4th Circuit ruling) on its side, eventually.

How WhatsApp actually worked: Erlang/BEAM/OTP all the way down, the biggest machines money could buy, location-transparent actors, and code hotloading as deployment. They bucked every Cloud Computing canon and ran the world's largest messaging system with a tiny team.

Joining NexHealth as Director of Engineering. Software and AI are eating the world — it's time they ate healthcare too. The mission: build the infrastructure layer that lets EHRs, doctors, developers, and patients actually exchange data.

After more time pair-coding with Claude Code, the awe wears off. It's an overly eager junior with raw smarts and no taste — fast, useful for onboarding, but prone to ridiculous code that you'd reject from a new grad.

Leaving Meta after a decade. The Facebook of the Red Culture Book — "What would you do if you were not afraid?" — is not the Meta of muscular energy and top-down NFT, Messaging Interop, and Metaverse. A goodbye, and a question worth carrying into the next chapter.