Writing
Essays on the stack and the loop; notes are the shorter stream.
Essays
The Model Got Better. The Bottleneck Moved.
Jun 9, 2026This week I pointed the whole agent fleet at Claude Fable 5 and turned the effort dial to its highest setting. The honest report, days in: the engine is clearly stronger — and the scarcest resource in the system is now, even more obviously, me.
Two Kinds of Stuck
Jun 5, 2026I let a fleet of coding agents run while I sleep. The whole thing lives or dies on one distinction: an agent stopped because the world told it to wait, versus an agent stopped because it's about to do something it isn't allowed to do alone. Only one of those is safe to nudge.
Why Parallelogramist
May 24, 2026A small always-on box runs a fleet of coding agents across my repositories while I'm away. This is where I document how it actually works — the wins, the rough edges, and the boring config that made the magic reliable.