Parity means doing the opposite
rust-tool-base needed go-tool-base's control over which commands an AI agent may call. Closing the gap meant doing the opposite of what Go did.
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AI
An agent is a loop with real tools and a fence
An agent is a model in a loop with tools it can really call and results it can really see. Taking the ReAct pattern apart in go-tool-base.
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.
The barkeep I hadn't invented yet
A soft launch for Scout, an AI co-dungeon-master for long tabletop campaigns, and why it will never speak to the players.
The marketplace I had to defend from my own attack surface
Opening a public marketplace for agent workflows meant publishing an attack surface, and then having to defend it from my own convenience.
The feature your users are already faking
The one real user of my photo tool was already faking a feature with a workaround. That workaround was the specification.
What burnout taught me (more than once)
Burned out more than once across twenty years, and the point is that none of them looked the same as the one before it.
The scaffolder that won't hand you code that doesn't compile
A Rust scaffolder with an AI codegen path that drafts a real command, then refuses to hand it over until it compiles and passes lint.
About that 'no AI'...
A correction to my own post: the culler does contain machine learning, and the distinction I drew between ML and AI does not survive scrutiny.
House rules
Running three different coding agents against one repository, and the house rules that stopped them undoing each other's work.
