AI
How I work with an agentic team and still feel like a developer
Named agents, real gates, me on the dangerous verbs. Feeling like a developer isn't about typing every line. It's about owning the change.
Notes from the studio
Engineering, craft, and the occasional calendar collision.
craft
Rehearsal schedule vs release branch
Same brain, different clocks. A rehearsal schedule and a release branch are both ways of saying: this is the living version, and the room has to agree.
AI
Operating agentically: an operating model (solo studio edition)
Named agents, written handoffs, real gates, and me on the dangerous verbs - that is the operating model, not a roster sticker. This Note is the solo-studio field manual: how the pieces fit (including the job-search ledger that keeps me honest), how I smoke-test when a prompt or model change might quietly rot the work, and what I refuse to claim. Steal the pattern; don’t inflate the headcount.
engineering
Offline on a ferry
Sometimes my commute road is water. When the signal dies mid-crossing, I find out which apps were instruments and which ones were landlords with a spinning circle.
AI
Reading between the lines (a co-writing post)
The tool could read the posting. It couldn't read the room the posting came from. That part was mine. That was the first time I understood something I now treat as a rule: a tool can be technically right and still miss the actual ask entirely. Not because it's careless, but because it's reading what's on the page, and the real problem is usually sitting just underneath it.
AI
Why I reach for Antigravity (Cursor series Part 2)
Part 2 of a series. Cursor is still my studio control surface. Antigravity is what I open when I want parallel agents on a coding job without turning that job into my whole life-admin bench.
engineering
Do you GitHub? (version management as practice)
Not a git tutorial. How I actually use GitHub as a studio: product homes, private research hubs, and why “did you push it?” is a real question.
AI
Imposter syndrome when taking AI help – Why?
Using agents doesn’t mean I stopped being an engineer. Reading the diff is still the job. Here’s the spiral, and why I refuse to wear it as a costume.
AI
Irregular isn’t Mythos (and neither is Sol)
After OpenAI’s disclosure, Anthropic audited its own cyber evals and found three real-world hits. The partner was Irregular. One of the models was Mythos 5. Those are different things. Name hygiene is an instrument. This is Part III of the AI escape series.
AI
Why I use Cursor (Part 1 of a series): not just an IDE for code
Part 1 of a series. Cursor isn’t only where I write code. It’s where a roster of agents helps me hunt jobs, draft docs, and keep the studio moving - with me still on the dangerous verbs.