Couch: A Sneak Peek
A sneak peek of couch, an agentic coding workbench created by 100% agentic coding. The process of creating it was very liberating.
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You Decide: An AI-Assisted Voter Guide Built On Your Own Values
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 AI Coding
Hot takes on current trends in AI coding. This is installment 2 of a series of 5 posts.
Building Blocks of AI Coding
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.
Five Months of Coding, in Numbers
A count of code, documents, issues, and commit activity across 15 repositories in my AI coding workflow, from April 20 to October 1, 2026.
Parley: A durable AI Interface for Learning
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.
Birthright Citizenship Ruling
A reflection on the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling and what it says about America.
Skill Binaries and Dynamic Skills
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 as My Research Workbench
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.
The Case for Space Data Centers
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.