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Self-extensible software is here and its amazing Source Material This is an X article I published about self-extensible software.

Seeding Context in Personal Agent Source Material This is an X article I published about Suggested Context in Personal Agent.

As I've been working on Personal Agent, one theory I've been operating under is that if I want an effective agent, it needs to be able to understand my intent.

Here are some more features in Personal Agent that you should steal to enhance your own agent harness.

I've been developing an agent harness I'm calling Personal Agent (naming is still hard, okay?).

FOBO & 5 Stages of Grief Hooo boy.

Its 2026 and the coding vibes have definitely shifted As I wrote in Its Time To Let The Model Drive, the latest generation of models have hit some invisible line where they went from "meh, they're okay" to "holy crap they're really good".

There's a ridiculous theory floating around on places like Reddit and Twitter that greedy model companies are selectively dumbing down their models for some profit motive.

There is so much alpha [for your profession] in being terminally online As a beginner When you're learning something new, it's so important to fully immerse yourself in whatever you can about that particular thing.

Its Time To Let The Model Drive (for coding) Its 2025 and you're still writing code by hand?!

Introduction During my time at Clockwise, I worked on Prism, a calendar management product that leverages AI to interpret user commands to execute actions on their calendar.

Moving onto a new chapter I left Noom on June 5th, 2023 after 5 years.

Introduction Obsidian is all the rage right now in the productivity tool market, especially with software engineers.

Introduction After a recent reorganization at my company, I'm taking this opportunity to start fresh with how I approach my relationship with my direct reports.

A good product-minded engineer is worth their weight in gold.

Introduction During my time on the Growth team at Noom, I've had to learn a lot about online controlled experimentation.

Introduction I'm in the process of rebuilding this website using eleventy and I wanted to get fancy with this revamped site.

The Grug Brained Manager this collection of thoughts on managing software development teams by a grug brained manager based on grug brained developer. grug brained manager not smart. somehow managed to convince boss that grug capable of managing others. g…

The good ole days Update (2023-01-21): I've migrated this blog to eleventy and use its built in RSS/Atom feed generator now.

Note taking hell Update(Feb 7, 2023): I've written down how I'm currently using Obsidian I have a hard time sticking with a note taking system.

Striving for dispassionateness Not influenced by strong feelings or emotions; impartial Definition As I continue on my leadership journey managing the Growth engineering team at Noom, one aspect of my personality I've been trying to work on is detachment.

I've used iTerm 2 for a few years now but came to the realization that I don't actually use any of its features.

Oh my dearest linter, adding squiggly lines under my mistake.

Finally got my dotfiles set up.

Over the course of 2020 and 2021 I've become increasingly sedentary with lockdown and full remote work.

I've dabbled in investing in the past but over the last two years I've really gotten involved heavily with managing my portfolio.

Bash tools are super powerful once you get a hang of using it.

Changes in 2018 Last year I left Penguin Random House in April to work at Noom.

I've been on quite the fitness journey these last few months.

This article was originally posted on medium.

Imagine your job is to run a website.

I started working on Collate in December of 2016.

I dropped out of college at twenty.