Getting Claude to comply better
Adding a 'Riff' mode for true brainstorming with Claude…
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My Life-Tools Upgrade Was Mostly Plumbing
I kept changing calendars and task managers. The useful change was connecting a few ordinary apps so I could work across them in conversation.…
Pointers, Not Answers
LLM output is a pointer to an answer, not the answer. Delegate the construction; keep the check. The real risk isn't the wrong answers. It's the right ones.…
Permanence Was an Accident
Why we kept source code for seventy years, and what agents just dissolved.…
The Turing Gradient
Whether AI 'passes' the Turing Test is the wrong question. The right one is which judges it passes for... and what that reveals about the rest of us.…
Judgement, not Method
Against both "AI hype" and "AI purity" ... and toward the older, harder question about what makes any piece of work worth standing behind.…
The Augmentation Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight
Everyone's debating whether AI will replace workers. They're missing the revolution: it's already augmenting millions of us. Edward Zitron’s "The Case Against Generative AI" ma…
Renting Intelligence by the Hour
[saw how new features over the last year are all either "Pro-first" or even "Pro-early", have had lingering thoughts about this since ...] Think of the gap between two people tack…
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The Great Reversal: From Numbers to Words For the past two centuries, we’ve lived in the age of the numeric. The hard sciences—physics, engineering, computer science—have dominated our understanding…
From Idea to App Store: a 1-month iOS project
I had this nagging little idea for an app for a while. I wanted a simple, visual way to keep memos to myself – a mix of images and text – always readily available, on my phone's home screens. Pr…