The Mirror Test
We asked three AI coding tools to grade their own exam. They couldn't help being themselves.
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Essays, research reviews, experiments, and things that don't fit anywhere else.
AI While You Sleep
I launched an AI agent at midnight. At 2 AM I checked on it. The results file contained a plan and an apology.
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An Engineer, a Product Manager, and a Designer
Three AI coding tools. Same code. Same prompt. Three completely different products.
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Sixty Cents of Entanglement
A Bell state on a real quantum processor. Under an hour. Less than a coffee.
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Snoar Does Not Rhyme With Snolar
Azure is forty-five times cheaper than OpenAI, local models all fail, and the speed wobble is real
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The Virgin VPS
Give an AI a blank server and it builds a content dump. Tell it to be the editor and it builds something with opinions.
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Thirty-Six Models on a Laptop
Running local AI on Apple Silicon in rural Sweden — what works, what does not, and where the ceiling is
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A Guide to Par
What 1,900+ AI conversations reveal about one person's brain, constraints, and building pattern
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Nine Days: From Radio Journalist to Software Builder
How 1,110 days of AI conversations compressed into a nine-day pivot -- told through the sessions where it happened
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Twelve Models Walk Into a Bar
One of them wrote a breakup letter to a Wi-Fi router. Another forgot its own name. A third said something that made the whole table go quiet.
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Fine-Tuning the Hard Way: Two Failures and What They Taught Us
Two attempts. Two failures. Same root cause both times.
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Five Good Decisions, One Bad System
Every API request takes 1.5 seconds. Something is very wrong.
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I Built the Tools They Said Should Exist
A personal critique of Spiel et al. (2022) on ADHD technology research
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Paper Review: Attention Residue and the Ready-to-Resume Plan
When you switch tasks, your brain does not cleanly switch with you
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Paper Review: Counterproductive Effects of Gamification (The Habitica Study)
Every single participant experienced counterproductive effects
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Paper Review: Resumption Strategies for Interrupted Programming Tasks
Only 10% of sessions see a first edit within one minute of resuming
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Review Is the Product; Revision Is the Risk
The reviews were genuinely valuable. The rewrites were not.
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The 870-Token Fix
A text file that cost nothing beat a model upgrade that cost four times as much
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The Nineteen Rules
Five override states, seven principles, seven tactical rules. All earned, none assumed.
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The Subagent Playbook: Three Patterns for AI Orchestration
Not all parallel work is the same, and using agents wrong costs you in one of two ways
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The Swarm Found a Medieval Carpet
Fifteen AI agents searched three archives. Six returned. What they found was worth more than what they wrote.
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Build Whatever You Want (And Other Terrible Prompts)
We gave an AI maximum creative freedom. It built the most boring website imaginable.
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The Context Trap
Give an AI a million tokens and it will read a hundred thousand of them carefully. The rest it will skim while telling you it didn't.
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The Variability Thesis: Building Tools That Fit Irregular Minds
Every productivity tool on the market is designed for a brain that doesn't exist
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Five Judges for Six Cents
How to build an AI evaluation panel that catches its own biases
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The Fallback Ladder
What actually happens when your AI goes down and you fall back to the cheap one
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