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A year's worth of AI notes: autoresearch loops, rented compute, AI games, and a pile of personal agents.

Updates on my AI workflow: hooks, model routing, and a few other tools I've been trying

Claude Code plus git worktrees, one per issue. The script, the prompt, and why I wanted something lightweight instead of yet another binary to manage.

Why senior engineers still hesitate on AI tools, and why 'but the LLMs write buggy code' misses who's been writing the buggy code all along.

Picking these checkpoints back up after nine years (oops). The AI tools I'm using, the books worth your time, and why the frontier is still so jagged.

I never took a computer class in high school, then landed a lab job I didn't deserve. That's where I met Pete. On finding yours (or being one!).

Where AI earns its keep: summarizing (who has time to read the whole Interwebs?) and the other things developers pretend to enjoy. Plus my MCP setup.

Moving my Python repos off Poetry now that uv is stable. It's fast (did I mention it's fast?), and real monorepo workspaces sealed it.

Our newly appointed AI Overlords generate meaningful Git commit messages

I keep saying these will be quarterly. They are not. Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, ChatGPT via LangChain, NixOS, DuckDB, Ruff, and Difftastic.