SECTION 05 — WRITING / INDEX

Notes from the edges of intelligence.

essays, build-logs, and short notes — mostly about ai, design, and the gap between thinking something and making it. updated when I have something I'd actually want to read.

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last filedmay 2026

// all files · reverse chronological

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→ 001 essay Why every student needs a lab, not just a laptop A laptop is where you take notes. A lab is where you make mistakes nobody assigned you. on rooms, consent, and the kind of mess that means you're thinking with your hands. 8 min — may 2026 → 002 note Notes after reading one AI paper twice The first pass is for showing off. The second pass is for the thing the paper is saying. a small method for not pretending to have read something. 3 min — apr 2026 → 003 log Building a small agent that keeps me honest Twenty lines of Python and one stubborn rule. most of the agents I want are not assistants. they're witnesses. 5 min — mar 2026 → 004 essay The interface is part of the idea You can't ship a brain. why design isn't a wrapper around intelligence — it's a load-bearing wall. 11 min — feb 2026

// drafts · in the lab

03 / unscheduled

→ 005 draft A grammar for tools that won't talk back placeholder — early notes on non-conversational interfaces. in progress ~6 min — soon

→ 006 draft What I learned from one year of building badly placeholder — a year-end log, kind of. in progress ~9 min — dec 2026

→ 007 draft On reading older code than yourself placeholder — notes on inheriting other people's repos. in progress ~4 min — soon

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