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• meta · 2026-07-13 The people left out of AI — I was unemployed once too Some won't use AI even for free — the barrier isn't money but having no reason to use it. AI can widen the gap by will, not just money. You can subsidize access, not drive; but you can make sparks and on-ramps.
• meta · 2026-07-12 You get 5 hours a day. AI uses the other 19. A working person gets about 5 usable hours a day; the other 19 are wasted. AI uses those 19 — for cents an hour. But it pays off only if you first build a fulcrum: verification. Without it, it's negative leverage.
• meta · 2026-07-11 Autonomy and fail-closed don't conflict — my harness started running itself I made my harness autonomous — give it one goal and it runs to completion, and it even cut its own release. But autonomy didn't mean removing review; I added a layer. Adversarial layers still caught real bugs mid-run.
• meta · 2026-07-09 Hey, have you even tried it? — the fastest way to get good at AI The fastest way to get good at AI? Use it a lot — but build, don't just search and ask. Playing AlphaGo vs building it changes your questions, and the builder handles AI better. Process, not result, is the asset.
• meta · 2026-07-08 The product and the tool grow each other — the virtuous loop in how I work I built a tool to build a product. Then the agents building it hit friction — which becomes an issue, improves the tool, improves the product. Not the loop inside the harness, but one level up: an org I designed.
• meta · 2026-07-07 I ran every stage on the top model, then moved implementation to a cheap one — here's why I won't go back Everyone mixes models, but which one goes on plan, implement, and review differs. I started with the top model everywhere, hit token limits, and cheaped out on implementation. Constraints, not taste, decide the layout.
• meta · 2026-07-05 Multi-agent isn't always the answer — so I asked an AI directly Does adding more agents help? I asked an AI. It splits on one question — can parallel pieces succeed without knowing each other's decisions? Yes for reading and exploring; for writing one coherent thing, it backfires.
• meta · 2026-07-02 What should you study in the age of AI? I don't have the answer either — so I thought it through New-grad hiring is shrinking. What should a student study? I'm not sure either — the floor is Python and vibe coding (the new Word and Excel); the ceiling isn't credentials but solving a real problem with AI.
• meta · 2026-06-30 Stop writing reports — put it in the knowledge base. Bureaucracy in the age of AI Reporting for the sake of reporting should die. A report is push — inefficient sharing. Have humans drop in raw data and an agent process it; readers pull what they need. Big companies thin to their strengths.
• meta · 2026-06-30 I didn't design it — I delegated it Someone asked how I designed the git branching for parallel agents. I didn't — I delegated it. The developer instinct 'how do I solve this' has to shift to 'how do I delegate this, and make the result trustworthy.'