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Claude Code hygiene

You know what you load on every request, you turn off what you don’t use, and you move hard rules into permissions: the monthly routine, with measurements from my setup and a prompt that does the inventory for you.

October 29, 2026 · 27 min

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Do you know the difference between a workflow and an agent?

In a workflow, you write the steps in code. In an agent, the model generates them one turn at a time. I explain what the difference costs (about 4 times the tokens of a chat, according to Anthropic) and the rule for choosing before you start.

October 26, 2026 · 8 min

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Auto-compaction is a colossal piece of crap

After compaction, an agent broke an explicit constraint in 30 runs out of 100, compared with 0 before (Wang et al., July 2026): the summary keeps the task and loses the rails.

October 22, 2026 · 8 min

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Frontend is Dead

The frontend has relied on three monopolies (interface, persuasion, and decision), and it’s losing all three. With personal agents, value moves to APIs, MCP, A2A, x402, and ERC-8004, and a website has to become queryable by a machine, not just convincing to a human.

May 17, 2026 · 11 min

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The Agentic Economy

When AI agents search, compare, and pay on our behalf, the web moves from user experience to machine experience: what happens to attention, work, and social control, from x402’s pay-per-request payments to prices falling toward marginal cost.

February 18, 2026 · 22 min