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Articles

Mostly about the gap between building something and defending it. Written slowly, published rarely.

Open Source · Coding Agents Tactical Creativity, Tactical Clarity A plan and a memory, a map and a window: the four things my coding agents kept missing, and the tools I built to give them. Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min read
  1. Engineering · AI Product An Assistant That Speaks for Me A narrow brief, one source of truth, and a fixed set of real questions to test every change against. Sep 28, 2026 · 14 min read
  2. Engineering · AI Security Building a Security-First AI Portfolio Lessons from shipping in public: what it takes to put an LLM on the open internet and keep it honest, cheap, and hard to break. Feb 17, 2026 · 5 min read

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