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I write about what I’m working on — from CLI workflows and AI agents to LLM behavior and UX — and the patterns I notice across them.

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Designing Intent-Aware UX for LLMs: The Intent Color Affordance Pattern

Abstract: Intent Color Affordance (ICA) Pattern Current Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces present all responses with uniform visual certainty, regardless...

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2026.06.17 13 MIN_READ

What "Learn AI" Actually Means (And What It's Missing)

The old starting line moved.

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2026.06.17 8 MIN_READ

Giving Your AI Agent a Local Voice (CPU-Only)

How we gave an AI coding agent a low-latency, fully offline voice on an old 2016 MacBook Pro (Intel CPU, Arch Linux) using Python 3.14, kokoro-onnx, and mpv.

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2026.06.16 4 MIN_READ

11 Git Concepts People Mix Up

Git is powerful, but it’s notorious for having commands and terms that sound alike, look alike, or feel like they should do the same thing—but behave very di...

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2026.05.29 9 MIN_READ

The Straw and the Mirror: Why AI Can't Always Explain What It Knows

Some Tagalog words do not have English translations.

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2026.04.30 13 MIN_READ

What If the Goblin Wasn't Just a Tic?

TL;DR: OpenAI explained that GPT-5.5’s goblin habit came from a reward artifact in the Nerdy personality. Fair enough. But what if some of those creature wor...

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2026.04.09 8 MIN_READ

The $20 Psychosis: Melting Code on a Budget (The Vibe Coding Series: Part 1)

AI researcher Andrej Karpathy posted something today about a “growing gap” in how people understand AI capability. I read it and thought: yeah, I’ve been liv...

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2026.04.01 23 MIN_READ

Mastering Claude Code (2026): Part 3 — Advanced Ops, Multi-Agents, and Enterprise Workflows

This is the final Part 3 of our Mastering Claude Code series. Part 1: Foundations, Setup, and Core Concepts Part 2: Workflow Mastery, Plan Mode, and Cus...

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2026.03.31 25 MIN_READ

Mastering Claude Code (2026): Part 2 — Workflow Mastery, Plan Mode, and Custom Skills

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on Mastering Claude Code in 2026. Part 1: Foundations, Setup, and Core Concepts Part 2: Workflow Mastery, Plan Mode, a...

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2026.03.30 34 MIN_READ

Mastering Claude Code (2026): Part 1 — Foundations, Setup, and Core Concepts

This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on Mastering Claude Code in 2026. Part 1: Foundations, Setup, and Core Concepts Part 2: Workflow Mastery, Plan Mode, a...

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2026.03.29 22 MIN_READ

What Actually Happens When You Call an LLM API

You send a prompt. You get a response. It feels almost instant — a second or two, maybe less. But between your code and that first streamed token, your reque...

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2026.03.28 21 MIN_READ

Vibe Coding vs. Agentic Engineering: The Difference Is Whether You're Still Driving

Everyone’s vibe coding now. Your LinkedIn feed says so. The Twitter/X threads say so. The “I built a SaaS in a weekend with zero code” posts definitely say so.

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2026.03.25 8 MIN_READ

Context Collapse: When One Sentence Breaks a Working Session

The Moment You Don’t Notice

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