Get Closer So I Can Hear the Birds

I was at a friend's apartment, testing GPT-4o's voice mode. She had lovebirds, and they were chirping away. "Can you hear the birds?" I asked. "Yes, I can hear them," GPT said. This surprised me. I'd …

The Socially Constructed Agent

Last week, Claude Code was about to open a PR for a feature I never asked for. Not a slightly-wrong implementation. A completely different feature. I'd just spent an hour planning the task with my nav…

The Navigator Pattern

I've been using Navigators for my platform engineering work and they've completely changed how I interact with AI. Keeping track of work, planning implementations, and learning over time and across pr…