Mat Greten

I had already done much of the thinking.

The Software Factory became a bottleneck.

I shut down Hermes and launched Moment Savor on the same day.

Shutterfly timed out after an hour of selecting family photos.

My pipeline built pull requests one increment at a time because my old laptop couldn't hold two checkouts of a big codebase at once.

A fleet-wide upgrade chore turned into a published extension, and its first live campaign caught a bug in itself.

My Valetudo robot was already speaking MQTT.

I exhausted a Claude allowance with an unbounded benchmark, then spent a weekend finding out what a supervised software factory could actually deliver.

Tracking meal expenses on a work trip by chatting with an agent from an elevator, and why the ledger lives in a Swamp model instead of a spreadsheet or a note.

I wanted Hermes to stop improvising and start reusing the models and workflows we had already built.

A Swamp model that turns a few trip details into a categorized packing list, previews before it touches Todoist, and asks before it commits.

UniFi update notifications are satisfying to clear—until the hardware you depend on turns an ordinary firmware update into a troubleshooting project.

Twenty cameras can see a lot, but the useful footage is scattered across views right when I don't have time to click through a timeline.

A two-sentence Discord prompt at a rest stop became a route-risk watch, then a quiet home safety system — and a lesson in keeping an agent from over-publishing what it builds.

Two weeks of orchestrated agent swarms, a datastore mess of my own making, and an upstream bug loop that actually worked — the projects I'd stopped starting are moving again.

Benchmarks can show us something real, but they cannot carry the weight of prophecy; the truer test is what a model does in the work in front of us.

Christians should take AI’s moral pressures seriously without confusing ordinary use of a tool with worshipful allegiance.

AI can assist with many kinds of work, but it cannot take the place of Christian wisdom, conscience, responsibility, prayer, or worship.

A benchmark can show a model is fast.

A three-part series about truth, allegiance, and wisdom while using AI as Christians.

I did not want a dashboard on my wrist.

I spent a few minutes prompting Hermes during a homeschool conference, and the automation made me more engaged, not less.

How I replaced a manual checklist and AI browser agent with a Swamp extension model that gates PRs with structured, queryable test results — no cloud CI spend required.

Local LLMs on the M5 Max have become useful for bounded agent work, but they are not Amp or Claude killers yet.

Hermes and Swamp finally worked once I stopped chasing install ownership and fixed the session snapshot that every tool subprocess sources.

A Frigate storage alert became a small example of why agents and Swamp are working so well in my homelab: bounded context, reviewable changes, and asynchronous fixes that preserve headspace.

I built an offline meeting transcriber using local Whisper, pyannote, and Ollama, then migrated it to swamp — the same typed models now power my terminal, my agent, and a future watch-folder, without copy-pasting a script.

I built an AI pipeline that ships production code to a ten-year-old Rails monolith about 90% of the time.

A pastoral and practical take on AI from a Christian perspective — wise, winsome, and well-timed.

Two things resonated from Simon Willison's post on agent-written code: owning the output regardless of who wrote it, and working code — not artisanal craft — as the real deliverable.

Claude Code handled complex tasks well in plan mode, but using it through a cooldown left me with quick solutions and a shaky mental model — until a post on Naur crystallized why.

The Southwest Companion Pass is often cited as the best deal in travel.

How I've earned over $100 in Google Play Store credits just by answering short surveys on my phone.

A quick tip on how to maximize your Southwest Rapid Rewards points with minimal effort.

Stop overpaying for your cell phone plan.

What is Meagerfindings and why did I start this blog?

Bank account bonuses are one of the easiest ways to make extra money if you have some spare cash sitting around.

A 28-mile loop through the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, crossing four 12,000+ foot passes.