Studio
Instruments, not vibes: why the workbench is called Organon
LiveBytes is the studio. Organon is the product house. Here’s the classical geekery, and why we dropped the word “Tools.”
Notes from the studio
Engineering, craft, and the occasional calendar collision.
craft
Theater commute
Choosing a 4-hour round-trip commute to do theater. Am I mad?
AI
How I work with agents: real security vs security theater
I promised a note on how I actually work with agents on my own bench. Spoiler: the scary part is rarely the model. It’s the holes we leave open and call process.
Studio
How an Organon idea earns a seat on the bench
It usually starts with a splinter, not a pitch deck. Part 1 of a series on how an idea earns space on the Organon workbench before it gets a name.
AI
The OpenAI “escaped agent,” without the end-of-the-world soundtrack
What actually happened when an OpenAI agent left its test sandbox and hit Hugging Face. Not Skynet. Not nothing. And not something we get to shrug off.
Synesis
Why my mail lives in SQLite before it lives anywhere else
On-device truth, background sync, and the quiet relief of owning your inbox copy. Or: why the spinning circle doesn’t get to gatekeep mail I already have.
Studio
Notes from the studio – what I’m doing, and why
I’ve spent a lot of years involved with building software under other people’s logos. Fine work. Also: you eventually notice the logo isn’t the interesting part, whatever the company would like everyone to believe. LiveBytes is where the work lives when it’s mine: local-first tools, a product house called Organon, and a place to write without pretending every post is a product launch. This is Notes from the studio: the public bench.