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The Tool Nobody Makes
I was writing pulp fantasy fiction. Two weeks later I had a 4,700-line AI-powered dungeon map editor. What vibe coding a custom tool taught me about the future of generic software.
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When AI Reviews AI: Building a Self-Correcting Agent Pipeline
Long-running agents drift. You can't read every transcript. We built background pipelines where Claude reviews agent output against identity documents and proposes state updates — a pattern that generalizes well beyond our hobby project.
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Three Tiers of Memory for Persistent AI Agents
Working memory in the prompt, episodic archives behind a tool call, permanent logs for background analysis. How we built memory that scales without blowing the context window.
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Adaptive Infrastructure: Building Systems That Survive AI
Your CI pipeline was designed for a different threat model. Here's a framework for code quality in the agent era — organized around four control surfaces.
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Personality as Policy: What Gaming Agents Teach Us About Building Professional AI Systems
The single most transferable lesson from building a gaming AI wasn't architecture or cost optimization — it was giving the agent a character it could reason from when the rules ran out.
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The Empty Tables: What We Learned Building an AI Game Master
For two weeks, an autonomous AI tavern keeper ran hourly on GitHub Actions, hosting tabletop RPG games and waiting for players. The waiting itself became the story.
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Modeling How Organizations Think, Not Just What They Can Do
Give an AI agent a capability list and it plays optimally. Give it vanity points, insecurities, and institutional memory and it plays realistically. What we learned building a multi-agent geopolitical simulator.
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Building This Site with Claude Code
How I used agentic development to build a professional blog from scratch in a single session — and what it taught me about human-AI collaboration on real projects.