Posts about automation
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Always latest as a system property
Most projects pin dependency versions to avoid breakage. We automated the opposite: daily upgrades with automatic rollback.
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270 Agents While I Slept
I ran an autonomous agent loop overnight — 43 waves, ~270 dispatches, ~250 vault files produced. Here's what I learned about building systems that work while you sleep.
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The Unexplainable Alpha
In AI agent systems, execution commoditizes. Research commoditizes. Coordination commoditizes. Taste — the ability to forecast what will matter — is the bottleneck that doesn't automate away.
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Skills Are Collapsed Recursion
Humans handle about three layers of abstraction before working memory fills up. Skills, rules, and frameworks exist to flatten the fourth layer into something you can hold.
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Supply-Driven Compute
Most people use AI tokens when they have a task. The better model: you have tokens, find the best task. It changes everything.
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Hooks Are Life Infrastructure
Event-driven hooks in AI coding tools aren't just for linting — they're programmable triggers for life routines, habits, and systems.
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The Nag Tax
When building automation around a third-party app, the first question to answer is: what's the one thing this app does that nothing else can replicate? That feature becomes the tax you pay on everything else.
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The Problem With Clever Browser Automation
The most sophisticated solution to a problem is usually a sign you haven't found the right abstraction yet.
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Your Tool Shouldn't Know What to Ignore
Configuration that belongs to the data shouldn't live in the tool. .gitignore figured this out thirty years ago.
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Rules Decay, Hooks Don't
The difference between writing down a rule and making the system enforce it — illustrated by a 15-line hook.
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Claude Code, Analyze My Spending
When AI coding assistants become workflow orchestrators, the most powerful compiler processes reality, not code.
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What and Why Beat How
When implementation becomes automated, human intelligence reallocates to purpose and strategy. The cognitive hierarchy inverts.
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Everyone Becomes Middle Management
The automation tool that creates more coordination work