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I build AI systems and write about it.
Plain notes on tech and AI from someone who ships it in production, not in demos.
latest writing
2026.06.12
Why most "agents" are just prompts in a loop
The word lost its meaning. Here is the line I draw between a real agent and a fancy wrapper.
2026.05.28
The real cost of a slow agent
Latency is not just a UX problem. It changes what people are willing to use the system for at all.
2026.05.09
What a CTO actually does in an AI-first company
Less code than you think. More judgment about what not to build.
recent tokdocs
2026.10.27
The video sells a citywide "speed of service" award for Chattanooga med spas; the Claude session it puts on screen says the same data supports no citywide ranking
2026.10.26
The video says the leak followed Thariq Shihipar's goodbye post; the tweet IDs put the leak 4 hours 10 minutes before it
2026.10.26
The video says MCP is dead; both primary sources for the technique say code execution runs on top of MCP, and the MCP spec reached GA on 2026-07-28