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I write about AI, life, and the messy future of humans working with machines.
By day I'm a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab building tools that help developers understand and optimize code. By night (and weekends) I write about AI agents, governance, intelligence, and anything else I can't stop thinking about.
What decades of software engineering taught me about running reliable AI agent infrastructure. Lessons from managing multiple AI gateways and why they need t...
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The smartest personal agent is often the most dangerous one, unless I split memory, execution, and approval into separate roles. I used to think the path to ...
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The Right Way to Use OpenClaw: Raise It Like a Partner, Not a Tool Most people underuse OpenClaw because they treat it like a smart utility; the real upside ...
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Sometimes I want to say “Codex, do the thing on my machine” while I’m away from my desk, on my phone, in a taxi, or between meetings. That was the whole reas...
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The Hidden Killer in Multi-Agent Systems: When Your AI Starts Filtering Like Middle Management The Incident That Changed How I Think About Agent Architecture...
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The Mirror Test: A Story of AI Writing About AI How I Used an AI Agent System to Write a Research Paper on Agent Self-Awareness — and What I Learned When the...
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