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 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 …
An AI agent that has to make the build pass
Most AI code generation works on a charming little principle I’ll call generate-and-hope. The model writes the code, the model stops at the closing brace, and whether the thing actually compiles is left as an exercise …
Letting the AI call your Go functions
An AI that can only produce text can describe your system. An AI that can call your Go functions can actually operate it. That gap, between describing and doing, is the difference between a chatbot and something …
