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A selection from 64+ published articles, hosted here. Most also run on Medium as syndicated copies.

  • The Claude Code Binary Is the Only Documentation That Never Goes Stale

    2026-08-19

    A plan of mine hinged on "a startup hook can only add context". The installed Claude Code binary said otherwise, and the docs would not say so for weeks. Docs lag, omit, and describe the version the writer had; the minified bundle on your disk is an exact description of what you are running, and Claude reads it like prose. How I grep it, store the finds by version, and where the method stops.

  • How a Quick Sidequest Turned into the Most Powerful Claude Code Plugin I Have Ever Used

    2026-08-18

    It started as a list for the "oh, by the way" thoughts that show up mid-task, so the main session could keep going. It grew, one obvious step at a time, into a local ticket board where each kind of work carries the model that fits it, workers run in their own copy of the repo, and my ChatGPT subscription is on the roster next to Claude.

  • The Quest for Local Model Routing Inside Claude Code Starts with a Codex Gateway Plugin

    2026-08-07

    Claude Code could only reach Anthropic models, so I was picking from a third of my real options. model-gateway is a plugin that puts the GPT and Grok models from my existing subscriptions straight into the /model picker, keeps itself updated, and leaves Claude traffic going to Anthropic on my own credential.

  • The First Thing I Install in Every Claude Code Project

    2026-06-30

    Claude Code kept re-reading my whole codebase every session, and CLAUDE.md never reliably fixed it. So I built a plugin that maps the codebase once and re-injects it into context on every prompt.

  • AI Is Entering a Dark Period

    2026-06-27

    In one month, the US government switched one frontier AI model off worldwide, rationed a second to about a hundred approved companies, and held a third back before launch. One government now decides who gets the best models, and most of the world, Europe included, has nothing of its own to fall back on.

  • The Honest Math of AI Productivity

    2026-06-16

    The 5 to 10x AI productivity pitch is snake oil. The rigorous studies put the real gain in the single to low double digits. The honest math, with sources.

  • The Jailbreak that Got Fable 5 Pulled Exists in Every Model

    2026-06-13

    On June 12, 2026, the US government made Anthropic switch off its two best models for every non-American on Earth, citing a jailbreak. Why that reason cannot be the real one, and what the precedent means.

  • Google I/O 2026 Was a Consumer Keynote in an Enterprise Year

    2026-05-23

    I watched Google I/O on May 19, 2026. By the end of the keynote, something felt off and I couldn't say what. This is me working out what.

  • How the Internet Dies

    2026-05-02

    For years, "Dead Internet Theory" was framed as something done to us: foreign bot armies, state-sponsored troll farms. My most-read piece of 2026 so far.

  • The Missing Half of MCP

    2026-04-21

    MCP gave AI agents a way to reach your systems of record. What it does not reach is live applications. The article that introduced tesseron.

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