Posts
All the articles I've posted.
How I got here
Published: at 09:00 AMTen years of commits, from Android interview tasks to running a fleet of AI agents. The long version of what I do and why.
People retain authority
Published: at 09:00 AMThe one rule behind everything I build for agents, and the five places it has turned into actual design: rules over prompts, decisions over notifications, narrow reach, credentials nobody holds, and records nobody can edit.
The agent platform I kept rebuilding
Published: at 09:00 AMBetween August 2024 and April 2025 I started the same agent platform five times and shipped none of them. It only started working when I stopped building one platform.
Working with a team of agents
Published: at 09:00 AMFor two years I built agent platforms. This year I started running agents instead. Six months in, here is what I hand off, what I keep, and where it breaks.
Maintaining an MCP server people actually use
Published: at 10:30 AMI wrote about ten MCP servers in ten weeks. One of them got used. What fifteen months of looking after it taught me about tools, context and contributors.
The sensor was in the airflow
Published: at 10:00 AMI spent ten days in April letting an AI agent rebuild my Home Assistant setup. It got more done in those days than I had in years. It also built two confident, well-argued explanations for a problem it couldn't see, and I had to walk over and look.
A year in code: what I was actually trying to build
Published: at 06:30 PMA year of side projects looks like chaos from the outside. Underneath, I kept circling the same five ideas about what AI agents need.
Welcome to My Den
Published: at 12:25 PMWhat this corner of the internet is about.