Posts about design
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The Missing Metabolism
We build agent tools the way medieval farmers bred crops — by hand, by instinct, one season at a time. There's a better loop.
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The Vocabulary Trap
Frameworks give you nouns for free. The nouns start thinking for you within a week.
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Design Actions, Not Actors
The word 'agent' makes us think in nouns. The better designs start with verbs.
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The Naming Problem
We called them agents. But the word is doing more harm than we think.
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The Annotation Model: What AI Journaling Gets Right
Most AI writing tools want to chat with you. The better model is annotation — AI that reads what you wrote and leaves margin notes.