Writing
Notes on making AI useful.
Essays and case notes about governed agents, operating systems for AI work, small products, and the practical decisions that matter after the demo. Every piece is grounded in a system I have built, directed, or am actively designing.
Selected writing
Essays & field notes
Seven pieces on architecture, operations, product judgment, and bounded automation.
I Built an Operating System for Governed AI Work
A practical architecture for persistent orchestration, specialist workers, deterministic controls, and human authority over consequential action.
Why I Configure My AI Agents to Challenge Me
Designed dissent, calibrated friction, and the authority boundaries that keep a helpful agent from becoming either an agreement engine or a synthetic manager.
Four Surfaces, One Operating Record
How Hermes, Vikunja, Discord, and Docmost divide execution, commitments, conversation, and durable knowledge without multiplying sources of truth.
The Film Should Be the Interface
A provider-neutral production architecture built around durable assets, shot intent, visible worker passes, and explicit generation and publishing gates.
Drift Tones: Making a Small Browser Tool Feel Complete
From technical spike to restrained browser product: Web Audio, accessible state, safer language, and a tool-first redesign after rejecting the first polished pass.
Soft Deadline Room: designing a timer that does not shout
A private, dependency-free timer prototype that explores calm interaction design, local-only behavior, accessible motion, and honest claims.
I built an autonomous AI agent for almost nothing—and it started asking its own questions
Why Python should do the lifting, why small models need bounded decisions, and what happened when V’ger was allowed to wander.