Department series
Essay
Longer-shelf cultural and philosophical writing.
Proofs
Show your work — 131 models, honest margins, and the thesis that it's agents all the way down.
Field Trials
Take the tools outside and see what breaks — agents become products, and products can be raced.
Blueprints
Drawing up the system — memory, MCP, structured output: the quarter the chat window stopped being the product.
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Clipboards are eating the world
The untold story of how your computer's clipboard sees itself as the essential bridge between humans and AI tools in the creative process. Through its eyes, we witness the journey of how digital projects come together through countless transfers between different AI services.
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The New Touch Interface
The real killer apps of smartphones weren't the early games but became things like group chats and video calls that fundamentally changed how we communicate. Similarly, while we're currently amazed by AI's capabilities, we're still discovering how these tools will meaningfully integrate into our lives.
Sketches
The notebook opens — eighteen months of prehistory behind it, and one question: what can these things actually make?
- Generative tools compress the hard middle of creative work — the judgment moves to the edges: deciding what to make, and whether it's good. — Making Hard Things Easier · Dec 15
