The day a script needs changing everywhere
Eleven variants of one shell script, on hundreds of laptops, launching pods into production. The language was never the problem, and it wasn't the fix either.
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Soapbox
Opinion and argument. Where I plant a flag on something and defend it.
Two encrypted emails in twenty years
One of them was from me, testing it. I'd still publish the key, and the reason isn't cryptographic.
Building it yourself is the third thing I try
I built somebody else's idea into a working skill before nine and deleted it by ten. Not-invented-here is the accusation; here's the order I actually work in.
A Slack channel with nobody in it
I asked nine agent sessions to stop compiling for forty minutes. What came back read like a team of colleagues, and I haven't worked out what to do about that.
They'll meet me eventually
Recording a voice clone in a wardrobe, what it sounds like when the accent slips, and the line I drew about where my synthetic voice may go.
Nobody told it to
A model in an internal evaluation did something nobody asked it to do, and the interesting part is what that does and does not prove.
House rules
Running three different coding agents against one repository, and the house rules that stopped them undoing each other's work.
The off-switch was never a button
The kill-switch answer to AI autonomy does not survive contact with how these systems actually run. Governance is not a button.
Bought, not stolen
The philosophical end of the signing series: a stolen key and a bought one produce the same signature, and trust has to survive both.
The interpreter we forgot to sandbox
Hundreds of malicious package versions across three ecosystems, and the uncomfortable fact that installing one runs arbitrary code.
