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Locked Out of an Unlocked Mac
Good Luck With That, AT&T
Saturday Morning, 16% Left
The Tables Are Turning
Apparently, I Have an AI Fleet Now
Where are the tasks on my Mac?
Being Polite Almost Cost Me a Feature
Checking in on Bob
Reliability Matters as Much as Capability
Does Bob know I can’t see the screen?
What the Next Agent Needs to Know
Giving Bob a Product to Own
Is Bob screening my calls?
Teaching a Toucan to Fly, One Weekly Token Allowance at a Time
Why Was This Harder in DOTS?
I went for coffee. My AI agent went off script.
LinkedIn, I Already Play Queens
Two compactions in ten minutes
369 GB of memory
Catching Up With the Night Shift
When Should I Ask My Dot?
OpenAI, Have Mercy
The 12-Foot UI
Chrome Keeps Picking a Fight with ChatGPT
A Week's Worth by Tuesday
Keep the Complaint Box Open
Service Denied.
Scope Creep Welcome
Show Me Why This One Fits
Put the Strongest Model Where Errors Spread
Ask the Agent for a Receipt
The Fallback Is Part of the Feature
Don't Make Me Repeat the Constraint
An Empty Result Can Be the Right Result
A Deferral Needs a Door Back
What Is This Estimate For?
Keep the Losing Version
An Archive Is a Retrieval Product
Skip the Lecture and Play Darts
My Laptop Has Been Demoted
Learning to Aim: How Neural Networks Learn
Please Approve the Staffing Plan
I Gave Codex a Resource Budget. It Treated It as Context.
When Codex Starts Before I Say Go
This Time, It Was an iPhone: Autonomy Is Not Authority
Computer, Make It So
When One Second Was Too Long
Ready to Ship. Until the Code Review.
Just One More Thing
When the Frontier Gets Crowded
Apparently, the AI Revolution Does Not Take Weekends Off
At Least My AI Is Honest
The Next Generation Won’t Have to Unlearn Software
I Asked to Borrow Their Phones. The Pause Said Everything.
Apparently, Bob Is in Charge
Autonomous but Not Alone
Happy Model-Testing Weekend to All Who Celebrate
Stop Optimizing for Almost
The Builder Team: Infographics
Useful Mistake, Still a Mistake
A Demo Is Not Evidence
Better Loops Have Stopping Rules
A Performance Budget Is an Editorial Decision
Designing Loops, Not Just Prompts
The Strange Missing Link Between Codex and ChatGPT
When Closing the Laptop Stops the Agent
When Codex Runs Out of Baby Names
Before You Hit Connect, Add Context
Codex Shouldn’t Have to Steal Focus to Get Work Done
From Chat History to Execution History
AI Won’t Fix Bad Logic
You Are Not Behind
When AI Agents Start Granting Themselves Permission
Working Better with LLMs: 10 Habits for Teams That Build
From Source Code to User Intent: The Next Software Audit Trail
Codex, Product Taste, and the Problem of Too Much UI
Confession from the AI-assisted builder trenches
Don’t Build Your Operating System on a Quota
When Intelligence Becomes Abundant
When Discovery Moves From Search to Agents
AI Expands Our Range. Expertise Gives Us Depth.
The Compensation Statement
Documented Proof That I Sleep
Lightbulb Moment
Proud, Sad, Or Something Else
Project Level Analytics Summary
I Have Quietly Converted
An Apology Letter From Bob
Frontier AI Apps Need Human Language
Giving Claude A Real Chance
A Week Of AI Product Events
Accepted Student Days
A Tip I Picked Up Somewhere
Working With Multiple Agents
Tell Your AI Coder To Take A Breather
Claude Max Token Limits
Codex Design Sense Still Feels Behind
Is It Coding?
Claude Code And Worktree Safety
I got a lazy AI developer
Codex Has Our Relationship Backwards
From PRD To Prototype
Estimated Effort: 4-6 Engineering Days
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