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Locked Out of an Unlocked Mac
Good Luck With That, AT&T
What Would You Trust a Streaming Agent to Do?
Saturday Morning, 16% Left
The Tables Are Turning
Following a Metric Into the Product
Apparently, I Have an AI Fleet Now
A Successful Launch Can Still Be a Product Failure
Where are the tasks on my Mac?
Learning to Manage Bob
Being Polite Almost Cost Me a Feature
Checking in on Bob
Reliability Matters as Much as Capability
Discovery Does Not End at Handoff
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?
What Makes a Great Product Team
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?
How Much Should One Person Be Trusted to Direct?
OpenAI, Have Mercy
What does a builder team look like?
The 12-Foot UI
Chrome Keeps Picking a Fight with ChatGPT
A Week's Worth by Tuesday
Keep the Complaint Box Open
Service Denied.
What Would It Take to Build Together?
Scope Creep Welcome
Show Me Why This One Fits
Put the Strongest Model Where Errors Spread
The Stakeholder Is Not the Customer
Ask the Agent for a Receipt
The Feature You Kill Defines the Strategy
The Fallback Is Part of the Feature
Don't Make Me Repeat the Constraint
Roadmaps Should Have Expiration Dates
An Empty Result Can Be the Right Result
Good Judgment Starts Before the Dashboard
A Deferral Needs a Door Back
What Is This Estimate For?
The Decision Is the Deliverable
Keep the Losing Version
The Student Still Owns the Thinking
What College Is For When Every Student Has an AI Tutor
An Archive Is a Retrieval Product
What Did the Demo Prove?
How I Build Presentations with Codex and Other Frontier Tools
Where the Smartest Model Belongs
Skip the Lecture and Play Darts
My Laptop Has Been Demoted
Learning to Aim: How Neural Networks Learn
When Source Code Outruns Human Review
Please Approve the Staffing Plan
I Gave Codex a Resource Budget. It Treated It as Context.
When Codex Starts Before I Say Go
When the Idea Answers Back
The A/B Test That Lies
This Time, It Was an iPhone: Autonomy Is Not Authority
Computer, Make It So
Your Team Needs Fewer Dashboards and More Dials
