House rules
I’ve had a Gemini Pro subscription for about eighteen months. In that time it has researched a leisure battery and a diesel heater for the campervan conversion, generated a truly stupid number of pictures of my pets in …
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The afternoon the agent earned its keep
There’s a kind of bug that’s worse than a crash. A crash at least tells you where. This one just… stopped. I asked ffmpeg-wasi to remux a clip into a Matroska file, no re-encoding, just repackage the same streams into an …
The off-switch was never a button
Last night, while I was asleep, an AI agent spent the better part of eight hours writing code in one of my repositories. It pulled a task off a spec, wrote the code, ran the tests, and left a merge request with my name …
The agent said SUCCESS. The linter disagreed.
There’s a repair agent inside go-tool-base now. When you run gtb generate command, it doesn’t just spit out a file and wish you luck. An agent takes the generated code, builds it, runs the tests, and fixes whatever it …
The interpreter we forgot to sandbox
I write a CLAUDE.md for every project I work on, and a small pile of other markdown files besides. They’re how I keep an AI agent on the rails: what the project is, what the conventions are, what it must never do. I lean …
The rung we sawed off
I was in a job interview yesterday, on the wrong side of the desk for once. After years of being the one asking the questions I’m having a look at what’s next, and somewhere in a long, wandering technical conversation …
They switched it off while it was fixing my code
I woke up this morning to a one-line message from my own tooling: Claude Fable 5 is currently unavailable. Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access I followed the link expecting a status page about …
The goblin that wouldn't stay dead
Turn one, the player swings, the die comes up 20, and my AI dungeon master narrates the goblin falling silent, leaving the player alone in the corridor. Good. Turn two, another roll, a 6 this time, and the same dungeon …
The greybeards' edge was never typing
I have a retirement plan, and it is gloriously low-tech. A cabin, some trees, a woodstove, and a firm rule that no wifi symbol ever appears within a mile of me again. I think about it more than is probably healthy. …
AI didn't kill curl's bug bounty. The bounty did.
In January, Daniel Stenberg shut down curl’s bug bounty. The headlines wrote themselves, and they all said the same thing: AI killed it. A flood of machine-generated slop drowned the maintainers, so they pulled the plug. …
