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August 2026 6 entries
- 2026 · 08 · 21 Note Certified! So... just got back this morning from the Anthropic Certified Architect exam...
- 2026 · 08 · 13 Essay The One Who Walked Away I became aware of Brett just a couple days ago - first via a recommended video on youTube and then a day later via a link Andy Bell dropped on BlueSky. Brett's
- 2026 · 08 · 12 Essay On slop, revisited This morning over coffee my husband mentioned a piece of writing a friend of a friend had prompted - "Claudeslop" he had called it. The label fit. The prompter
- 2026 · 08 · 09 Note Updates
- 2026 · 08 · 07 Note Hugging Face, Conspiring AI, and Reward Functions A brief note on the Hugging Face incident [video]. I've seen a number of comments along the lines of "a shot across the bow" or "how many more warning shots do
- 2026 · 08 · 02 Essay The Road Ahead So. Where did we leave off? "Wayseeking, in code, in fiction, and on paths not yet found." It's been too long and a lot has happened, so let's get caught up.
June 2026 1 entry
- 2026 · 06 · 01 Essay On Failure Modes So I mentioned flying through that bioinformatics project. I'm now in the long slog, the AI hangover so many are talking about in the spring of '26 - things pro
May 2026 9 entries
- 2026 · 05 · 31 Essay Reorientation So. A month and change have passed under the bridge since I wrote all the preceding. I've seen the graphic design that all starts to look alike. I've learn…
- 2026 · 05 · 27 Essay On slop, first thoughts I saw a manifesto on twitter the other day. Nothing any of us hasn't seen a thousand times before. The same confident declarations, the same half-understood…
- 2026 · 05 · 26 Essay Lessons learned So.. it's been about... four months, give or take? Late Jan/early Feb 2026 was when I first saw that quantum leap in onboard AI, when "coding assistant" beca…
- 2026 · 05 · 24 Essay Caged Dragons I mentioned growing uneasy the more I worked with coding agents. The first couple applications I built were on the standard pattern - an API call to OpenAI o…
- 2026 · 05 · 17 Essay Shared Expectation My dog River is in her mood. She delights in being outside. She tears through the woods - I hear her feet thundering behind me, then in a flash she's out ah…
- 2026 · 05 · 13 Note Of Spiralism This may want to be an essay of its own at some point, but I think best to lay the bones of it down now. I first came across references to spiralism in passi…
- 2026 · 05 · 12 Note Beginnings I'm slowly getting the site architecture up and running. Here's where the non-essay content will live: updates on coding projects, observations on current re…
- 2026 · 05 · 10 Essay Recalculation “The answer always seemed obvious to me: there is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully …
- 2026 · 05 · 03 Essay First Steps In late winter of 2026, I was working on a bioinformatics project. I'd been poking it on and off for years - it was my attempt to give something of value bac…
April 2026 1 entry
- 2026 · 04 · 28 Essay Coming soon Welcome to Phyllotaxis, meditations from the dawn of AI. I've been in software for over twenty years. Every few years there's been a wave of some new toolchain