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- It Agreed With Me Both Times
I asked the machine to help me choose, twice, and it approved of both answers – including the one that contradicted the first. Asimov wrote this in 1941, the sycophancy papers measured it, and none of it means the model is stupid. It means a decision is not a thing you can delegate.
- A Skill, Not a Trick
Elaborate agent schemes at one end, a session-summary hack at the other – both hunt for a trick, neither builds a skill. What timed searches on AltaVista taught me about the difference, and what a day's work should leave behind.
- The Only Necessary Thing
I dropped CLAUDE.md, auto-memory and general skills, and kept one thing – a memory system. Why a file cannot do that job, what the thirty percent token bill actually buys, and why I keep declining to put mine online.
- The Cards Won't Run Away
Luhmann's method is famous; the cards he actually wrote sit scanned and largely unread. I built somewhere to read them, and learned what it costs to make a machine admit when it cannot read a word.
- Seventy Weeks, One Epoch
My son pointed me at the hype, but a Dota 2 bot had already taught me what training really means. What seventy weeks of building every day added up to – including the lesson I did not want.
- Welcome
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