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2026-11-10 · 12:00
Essay4 min
A tall stack of paper on a dark table, wound round with loops of glowing orange light.
Two loops. One memory. AI agents that get a little smarter about your project every week.

How I Claude

I built my coding agents a memory that improves every week, even when no session is running: shared docs, session debriefs, searchable transcripts, and a gardener.

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2026-10-13 · 12:00
Essay4 min
A small black box-shaped figure with a cream VU-meter face holds a blank yellow sticky note, standing on a large sheet of paper on a wooden desk in warm lamp light. On the sheet, a pencil sketch of a browser window, with lines running from its address bar up to three boxes labelled VP. A pencil lies beside him; glowing VU meters and a RateMyHiFi mug sit at the edges.
He just wants to rename a page.

AI is making Conway's law impossible to ignore

A CIO once asked me why we should merge product and technology under single directors. I gave him a two-word answer and the room laughed. The answer is sixty years old, and AI is making it impossible to ignore.

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2026-09-09 · 14:31
Note

I left Nintendo planning to take a year off. It turns out I'm not very good at staying away from complicated websites.

RateMyHiFi is a community site for audiophiles: post your system, see what other people are running, get upgrade advice from an AI that can't actually hear but has read every spec and has opinions anyway.

I built and run it solo using AI-augmented engineering. It's also very fast, which I'm unreasonably pleased about.

https://www.ratemyhifi.com

Starting to talk to folks about what's next.