Projects, tools, and notes on the craft of making software in the AI era.
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Resident
— Vibe coding firmware (sandbox library for ESP32 devices).
Notes on AI, Labor, and China
— Documenting all the dimensions of our collective AI anxiety.
Using Claude Code: Session Management & 1M Context
— Useful tips for managing the Claude Code context window.
Keeping the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync
— "Just like software doesn’t really work until it meets the real world, a spec doesn’t really work until it’s implemented."
Claude Code Psychosis: Are Your Problems Software Shaped?
— this is my favorite thing on Claude Code so far
Manic Technology
— "you still need friends for that, people who know you, who know when you’re talking too fast, and the gleam in your eye has taken on a hard edge"
Photostation
For Christmas, I got my five-year-old nieces some cheap digital cameras from Walmart. For their birthdays a few weeks later, my brother suggested getting them a digital picture frame so they could…
Software's YouTube Moment Is Happening Now
— "software becomes a medium for expression, not just utility"
Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead
— Models = processor, Agents = OS, Skills = apps
2025 LLM Year in Review
— Karpathy's comprehensive look back at how LLMs evolved through 2025.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Code
— "language models are...totally capable of coaxing computation out into the realm of the human … yet instead they’ll pull a vast field of human activity deeper into the domain of code"
Introducing A2UI
— framework for agents generating user interfaces
Resonant Computing Manifesto
— private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, prosocial
AI: Tool, Mind, Weapon
— A useful framework for thinking about the three ways AI can be used, and which ones we should worry about.
Claude Skills Explained
— skills vs prompts vs projects vs subagents vs mcp
How to Implement AI Prototyping In Your Product Development Cycle
— Reforge on integrating AI prototyping into the product development workflow — useful for anyone trying to move beyond demos.
Hyperproductivity: The Next Stage of AI?
— "the more you use it, the better it gets"
AI Will Not Make You RIch
— "The way to invest in AI is to think through the implications of knowledge workers becoming more efficient, to imagine what markets this efficiency unlocks, and to invest in those."
Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills
— I’m very excited about this, the untapped potential in Claude Code (et al) for non-coding tasks is huge
Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
— ”Please read the book and pull out reusable skills that weren't obvious to you before you started reading”
OpenAI Apps SDK UI Guidelines
— OpenAI's design guidelines for building agent-driven interfaces — interesting to compare with Anthropic's approach.
Functional versions of the LEGO computer bricks
— Love Hultén turned the decorative computer bricks from LEGO sets into actual working machines. Beautifully impractical.
Vibe engineering
— how software engineering practices amplify ai-assisted development
AI Isn't Replacing Radiologists
— if AI is good at radiology why is demand for radiologists is higher than ever? Diff. btw. clinical and lab setting, legal hurdles, and diagnosis is only a fraction of the job
Building Agents with the Claude Agent SDK
— Anthropic's guide to building production agents with the new SDK.
Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents
— Anthropic's practical guide to structuring context for AI agents — one of the best resources on this topic.
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation
— I love stuff like this, it makes me want to learn electronics and basic fabrication skills
Magical systems thinking
— "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."
Software is the New Content
— I hadn't considered the marketing angle explored here
The Purpose of Prototypes
— discover a successful product, test the risks
"Built with Claude" Contest Winners
— I love how niche these are
i ran Claude in a loop for three months, and it created a genz programming language called cursed
— it's Ralph Wiggums all the way down
Software speed and the chat illusion
— the chat ui is uniquely suited to the slow response speed of LLMs / "everything is slow before it's fast"
Making Sense of AI Job Titles
— aiming at a moving target
A.I. Is Coming For Culture
— by Joshua Rothman
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated
— I haven't tried the tool yet, but I love how it's structured as a "game"
Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals
— tons of helpful info in here (start with the "getting started" links ofc), I'm excited to try these ideas with Flavorful
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
— I've been learning about how to do AI evals lately, I have some links for someone at Taco Bell to check out
DXT Weekly is a newsletter that shares interesting MCP servers
— Things-MCP was featured this week
Theresa Torres on AI Evals
— I like this "bottom up" approach to AI evals, and also relate to the level up she's experiencing with Claude Code (et al) as a non-software engineer
The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business in 2025 (PDF)
— massive individual AI adoption but only 5% of corporate pilots are successful
Getting Over It
It's very easy to get into the flow building something and throw out my plans to step back and reflect or write one of these updates. But there is always one more thing. I recently read the book…
Restoring computer-based art at the Guggenheim
— return of the <blink> tag
I don't get it, we had all those meetings
— A perfectly observed New Yorker cartoon about the gap between meetings and actual understanding.
Simple hook so Claude Code can tell you when it's waiting on you
— I'd like to do something like this with a red/yellow/green "tower light"
AI Model Pricing Comparison
— One table for comparing model pricing and capabilities
AI UI metaphors: HUDs vs copilots
— Geoffrey Litt argues we need fewer copilots and more heads-up displays — AI that augments your view rather than taking the wheel.
Anthropic guide to building multi-agent systems
— very practical
Flounder Mode
— profile of Kevin Kelly
Good demos are important
— curiosity is the main force for how we pull ideas from the future into the present
Ira Glass on "the gap" between taste and output
— The classic Ira Glass talk about how your taste develops faster than your ability, and why you have to push through the gap.
Learn in public
— make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning
Scrappy
— make little apps for you and your friends
Welcome
Welcome to my new website! I actually registered this domain on March 19, 2006. I was living in New York City, working at a financial software company, and planning my escape – a long backpacking…
AI is a technology shift without an accompanying distribution shift, but it's coming
— The last big tech shift (mobile) came with a distribution shift (app stores). AI doesn't have that yet — but when it does, everything changes.
Using Claude Code as a general purpose tool for things besides writing code
— Using Claude Code for non-coding tasks like research, writing, and file management — turns out the CLI is a surprisingly good general-purpose AI interface.
Claude Code can launch subagents in parallel (up to 10 at a time) via the "task" tool
— A deep dive into how Claude Code's parallel subagent system works under the hood.
Tired: Prompt Engineer, Wired: Context Engineer
— Karpathy argues the real skill isn't writing prompts — it's engineering the context around them.
How Long Contexts Fail and How to Fix Your Contexts
— Practical guide to why long context windows don't always help, and how to structure your context to actually work.
A malleable UI pairs the ergonomics of GUIs with the open-ended flexibility of chat.
— Geoffrey Litt on why the best AI interfaces won't be pure chat — they'll be flexible UIs that bend to what you need.
Christoph Niemann grapples with AI and art
— Christoph Niemann's honest exploration of what AI means for illustrators and visual artists.
Reddit: What is it actually that you guys are coding?
— A surprisingly illuminating Reddit thread about the range of things people are actually building with AI coding tools.
How AI might change the nature of jobs?
— "there are three major areas where humans either are, or will soon be, more necessary than ever: trust, integration and taste"
Projects
Generative UI Experiment
What's possible when an LLM can generate a user interface inside an application, on the fly?
Photostation
A photo kiosk for my nieces—plug in a camera, see photos on the TV, add stickers and silly frames with an Xbox controller
Robot on Wheels
A workshop where I build things and think out loud.
RSS Terminal (and a lesson in vibecoding)
This text-based RSS reader is my poor-man's Bloomberg terminal.
Things MCP
An open-source MCP server that connects Claude to Things, the Mac task manager.