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title: "Articles - Resolve."
description: "What I think about while the machines run. My day to day experiences from software and data engineering practice."
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# Articles

What I think about while the machines run.

-   **[Reasoning matters](https://resolve.works/articles/reasoning-matters/)**

    Reasoning traces are valuable. They can tell you a lot about your prompt. Unless your provider has decided you may not look.

    September 3, 2026

-   **[Everything in its place](https://resolve.works/articles/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.

    August 26, 2026

-   **[Pi is a really nice agent](https://resolve.works/articles/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.

    July 30, 2026

-   **[The tool is not the author](https://resolve.works/articles/the-tool-is-not-the-author/)**

    Authorship has always been about direction and selection, not manual execution of every detail.

    April 10, 2026

-   **[AI agents are human too](https://resolve.works/articles/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.

    December 6, 2025