Reflections not Replays — Blue Skies and Ultraviolet Rays

I ran a scan across my own workspace one morning and found 309 plaintext files of household medical and financial records sitting where a cloud-backed coding agent could read them.

In the fall of 1982 I ran on the Ithaca High School team that won the New York State Class A cross-country championship by one point (MileSplit state meet history).

The Fear came into the building the way it always does, through the loading dock and the group chat, and by Thursday it had a seat at lunch.

Five mechanisms, each with the evidence behind it.

One entry per claim you are likely to hear, in a fixed form: the claim as heard; the sentence the source actually wrote, with the link; the number with its denominator; the honest concession; the sentence to say in the room; and what would change the answ…

On 27 July I published a piece arguing that the token price is not your problem.

Most evaluation suites have two settings, off and everything.

I keep two token ledgers in my workspace, and I can’t get a per-token cost out of either one.

Two point one trillion dollars.

So you vibed up a mess.

RFPs, product specs, discovery, inheriting a codebase — formalizing what good PMs, founders, and engineers already do, plus a notebook that keeps the reasoning alive.

Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern — call it a KWiki — is one of the better ideas to come out of the agentic-coding moment.

An OpenClaw failure mode, and the CQRS-shaped pattern that replaces it If your agent reads a structured file, modifies it inside the language model, and writes it back, you are running a latent data-loss bug.

I was finishing the retrospective when the sponsor asked for the headline number.

In 1999, a race condition surfaced aboard NASA’s Deep Space 1 spacecraft, 100 million miles from Earth.