The dragon of complexity

AI.

I build AI agents for a living and run my own life on plain text with an AI reading it. This section is about the judgement layer: what to hand the machine, what to keep, and how to tell the difference before it costs you.

The essay to start with

A prompt is code that arrives dressed as configuration.

From AI Prompts Are Code. Treat Them Like It., on why the minute it takes to put a prompt into a live process is the whole risk.

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Get Your Garmin Data Off Their Servers

For about three weeks in August I was exhausted, and I could not work out why. There was plenty to blame. Work was heavy, I had come back from a…
AI Prompts Are Code. Treat Them Like It.
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AI Prompts Are Code. Treat Them Like It.

AI Prompts Are Code. Treat Them Like It.

Why I Still Grind Ink
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Why I Still Grind Ink

Why I Still Grind Ink

Nobody Who Can Juggle Is Watching the Balls
Nobody Who Can Juggle Is Watching the Balls

Nobody Who Can Juggle Is Watching the Balls

The other dragons

Pick another.

Inaction

Productivity

I’ve run the same system for twenty years, long enough to watch every trend arrive twice.

Forgetting

PKM

Notes are cheap. Knowing what you think is not.

Weakness

Martial Arts

Training, and what thirty-odd years of getting hit teaches you about everything else.

Emptiness

Living

Weeks that are full but don’t add up, and the life around the work.