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Loophole is not interesting because it solves ethics. It is interesting because it treats moral principles like something you can draft, attack, patch, and escalate until the real conflicts in your values finally surface.

Attio, Linear, and PostHog are converging on the same product bet: one fixed dashboard cannot serve every user or every intent, so the SaaS homepage is shifting toward an agentic entry point. Chat is the router. Generative UI is what comes next.

The next real step for agents is not just more subagents inside one product. It is genuine multi-agent runtime across different harnesses, using paired review loops, handoffs, shared threads, and open protocols such as A2A.

As of March 24, 2026, the biggest divide in mobile AI coding is not provider branding. It is whether your phone is steering a session running on your own machine or watching cloud agents work somewhere else.

Claude Code autonomy is not one trick. It starts with permission friction and context hygiene, then moves through subagents and loop hooks, and becomes genuinely useful when the system can measure whether the last iteration actually improved the work.

The newest memory systems do not make language models inherently stateful. They build recall, updates, and temporal reasoning around the model instead. Gemini Embedding 2 is the first mass-scale vector embedding that is multimodal.

The most useful way to understand AI progress isn't by tracking model names. It's by tracking the operating model: from chatbots that only talk to systems that can plan, act, coordinate, and increasingly sit across software.

AI can speed up individual tasks, but that does not automatically create more free time. From personal experience, the saved capacity gets filled by more complex tasks and higher expectations.

I write, build, and teach around AI, learning, and digital work.

A public interactive explainer showing how modern agent memory systems layer extraction, versioning, multimodal recall, and source grounding around stateless models.

A public interactive grimoire exploring AI through ritual, agency, memory, and dependence across twelve short chapters.

A public interactive map tracking major AI data center projects, locations, investment, and planned capacity.

A compact checklist for deciding whether an AI output is actually usable.

The small set of models and tools I use regularly.

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Essays, resources, and experiments on where AI is going and how to use it.

A public interactive guide to Claude Code, covering slash commands, memory, skills, hooks, MCP servers, subagents, and workflow patterns.

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A public interactive guide to the five levels of Claude Code autonomy, from permission friction through subagents and loop hooks to evaluation-driven improvement.

The main things I work on here: AI, learning, and projects, plus how the site is organised.

A public interactive guide to agent-to-agent communication patterns, covering paired review, typed handoffs, shared threads, swarm routing, and the A2A protocol.

A public interactive explainer for Loophole, Brendan Hogan's adversarial moral-legal code system for drafting, attacking, patching, and escalating edge cases in your own principles.

A public interactive guide to the split between local supervision, self-hosted mobile bridges, and cloud autonomy in mobile AI coding.

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A public interactive companion to The SaaS Homepage Is Becoming an Agent, tracing the shift from dashboard-first software to chat-first entry points and then to generated interfaces.

A public month-by-month timeline of AI breakthroughs, model launches, and industry shifts from GPT-3 to the agent era.

A public interactive timeline and story view tracing the evolution of large language models from Transformer to reasoning agents.

A public interactive guide to how AI evolved from chatbots into agentic systems, orchestrators, and software that behaves more like an operating system.

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Hand-drawn editorial illustration showing a central rule document under pressure from opposing loophole and overreach forces, with review and precedent hovering around it.

Essays

Loophole Treats Ethics Like Adversarial Testing

Loophole is not interesting because it solves ethics. It is interesting because it treats moral principles like something you can draft, attack, patch, and escalate until the real conflicts in your values finally surface.

06 Apr

Hand-drawn editorial illustration showing a rigid dashboard evolving into a chat bar and then into a generated multi-panel interface.

Essays

The SaaS Homepage Is Becoming an Agent

Attio, Linear, and PostHog are converging on the same product bet: one fixed dashboard cannot serve every user or every intent, so the SaaS homepage is shifting toward an agentic entry point. Chat is the router. Generative UI is what comes next.

05 Apr

Sketch illustration of an open notebook surrounded by five agent communication patterns: paired review, handoff, shared thread, swarm routing, and an external capability card.

Essays

How Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

The next real step for agents is not just more subagents inside one product. It is genuine multi-agent runtime across different harnesses, using paired review loops, handoffs, shared threads, and open protocols such as A2A.

31 Mar

Sketch editorial illustration of a phone splitting into a local laptop workflow on one side and cloud agent workspaces on the other.

Essays

Mobile AI Coding Is Splitting Into Local Supervision and Cloud Autonomy

As of March 24, 2026, the biggest divide in mobile AI coding is not provider branding. It is whether your phone is steering a session running on your own machine or watching cloud agents work somewhere else.

24 Mar

Sketch illustration of an open notebook turning into five stages of autonomous Claude Code workflows, ending in a measured results chart.

Essays

Five Levels of Running Claude Code More Autonomously

Claude Code autonomy is not one trick. It starts with permission friction and context hygiene, then moves through subagents and loop hooks, and becomes genuinely useful when the system can measure whether the last iteration actually improved the work.

23 Mar

Sketch illustration of a central notebook page turning into a layered memory system with cards, media inputs, and timeline markers.

Essays

Agent Memory Is Being Built Around the Model

The newest memory systems do not make language models inherently stateful. They build recall, updates, and temporal reasoning around the model instead. Gemini Embedding 2 is the first mass-scale vector embedding that is multimodal.

23 Mar

Hand-drawn editorial illustration of chat bubbles turning into a routed workflow system.

Essays

AI Is Moving From Chatbots to Operating Systems

The most useful way to understand AI progress isn't by tracking model names. It's by tracking the operating model: from chatbots that only talk to systems that can plan, act, coordinate, and increasingly sit across software.

22 Mar

Sketch illustration of a notebook and clock connected to branching tasks, showing AI-driven work expansion

Essays

AI Does Not Automatically Give You Time Back

AI can speed up individual tasks, but that does not automatically create more free time. From personal experience, the saved capacity gets filled by more complex tasks and higher expectations.

21 Mar