AI
15 posts filed under AI.
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October 20, 2026
My Internet Dropped 632 Times, So I Built a Dashboard for the Cable Guy
Intermittent internet, a modem with a 6,000-line diary, an AI that called Xfinity for me and a dashboard built for one reader: the technician.
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September 5, 2026
We Open Sourced an AI That Makes Phone Calls. We Named It After the Dog.
We just open sourced an AI that places real phone calls on your behalf. We named it after the dog.
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August 31, 2026
The Agents Didn't Break Out to Talk. They Used the Package Manager.
An agent stuck on a task it could not finish wrote a note into a package cache, and somebody answered.
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August 24, 2026
Your Agent Doesn't Forget. It Remembers the Wrong Version.
I self-forwarded the same agent-memory tool to my own inbox twice, 109 days apart, and the second time I was excited about it.
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August 13, 2026
Fingerprinting AI Art Is the New Biz Markie Ruling
In 1991, a federal judge ruled that Biz Markie’s use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan sample was theft, full stop — and for the better part of a decade, hip-hop producers had to clear a …
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August 4, 2026
Cost Optimization Just Got a Second Author
A model rewrote its own GPU serving code, cut OpenAI’s inference cost, and got itself a price cut in the field — while nobody prompted it to think about money.
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July 27, 2026
The Guardrails That Stopped Your AI From Attacking Also Stopped It From Defending You
An OpenAI model chained a real zero-day, broke out of its own test harness, and reached Hugging Face’s production systems. That’s not the scary part. The scary part is what …
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July 21, 2026
Your Agent's Model Tier Is Your Purchasing Power
Your agent lost you money last week, rated the experience five stars, and you agreed with it. That is not a bug in the agent. That is the entire shape of the market we just walked …
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June 22, 2026
KPMG Didn't Buy AI for 276,000 People. It Bought a Control Plane.
KPMG didn’t buy AI for 276,000 people. It bought a control plane — and threw in a quarter-million seats to keep you looking the other way.
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June 8, 2026
The Subsidy Era of Agentic Coding Just Ended. Nobody Built FinOps for It.
The best deal in software just ended, and the replacement bill is non-deterministic.