Reasoning matters
Reasoning traces are valuable. They can tell you a lot about your prompt. Unless your provider has decided you may not look.
Articles
What I think about while the machines run.
Everything in its place
After years of backups inside backups and secrets scattered across machines, my devices now form one synced, encrypted whole that basically maintains itself.
Pi is a really nice agent
Pi starts with a small core and lets you build the rest yourself. The result is an agent environment that works the way I think.
The tool is not the author
Authorship has always been about direction and selection, not manual execution of every detail.
AI agents are human too
More and more often, my agent can't fetch the pages I send it to read. The blocking is economic, not technical — and it doesn't even work.