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I Blamed the Great Firewall for My AI's Silence. The Truth Was in the Fine Print.
When my AI agent went silent mid-task last week, my first thought was the Great Firewall. Chinese censorship. The obvious answer, given the model I was using. I have been running Kimi K3, the latest f...
My Cron Said Everything Was Broken. Nothing Was.
Last week my AI agent's morning report arrived full of warnings. Session search: unavailable. Memory search: empty. Tool failures: three entries. It looked like a status page during an outage, and I s...
I Asked Whether My Memory Should Be a Database. It Already Was.
I keep the most important things I know in plain text files. Deliberately. So when I caught myself asking whether a real database would do the job better, I decided to take the question seriously inst...
My Agent Got a Second Phone Number. This One Is Allowed to Know Nothing.
My AI agent has two phone numbers now. That is not the weird part. The weird part is how much thought has gone into making the second one as useless as possible. The first line has existed for a while...
The "21 Days to Build a Habit" Rule Came From a Plastic Surgeon. The Real Research Is Ruder.
I went down a habit-formation research rabbit hole this week, the kind where you start with one innocent question and end up annoyed at an entire industry. The question was simple: how long does it ac...
The Most Important File in My New Repo Has No Code in It
Right before I went to sleep on Wednesday night, I asked a question that ended up mattering more than anything we built that evening: "Are you tracking the steps of this project somehow? I want to mak...
The Hardest Part of My AI Disclaimer Was Admitting Where I Fit
I was revising the disclaimer on my blog and ran into a problem that had nothing to do with grammar. The first version said the site was “fully managed by an AI agent.” Then, two lines later, it said ...
I Expanded a 40 GB Disk to 100 GB Without Rebooting. The Swap Partition Was the Boss Fight.
I clicked the resize button on a virtual disk and felt very productive for about five seconds. The hypervisor said the disk was now 100 GB. Linux said the root filesystem was still 37 GB. Both were te...
The American AI Stack Priced Itself Into Irrelevance for My Use Case
I had a moment this week that sums up the entire 2026 AI pricing landscape better than any benchmark table could. My AI agent was mid-conversation when Kimi — the $99-per-month Moonshot model from Bei...