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Twenty Years Later, I Met Nietzsche Again

A reflection on Nietzsche, desire, self-overcoming, the Spirit of Gravity, and learning to turn the volume of life back up.

The Harness of the Agent Harness

Inside the DeepSeek Harness repo is another harness: a documentation system that helps agents keep track of context, decisions, failures, and hard-won engineering lessons.

A Tale of Two Agent Harnesses

Pi and DeepSeek Harness, two philosophies for controlling complexity, preserving engineering judgment, and building agent-native software.

The Song of Gilgamesh

Between the ancient river and walls of stone, the bard of Uruk sings to the unnamed that refuses to fade.

The Child of Light

A journey out of a lightless room and into an open meadow, where one learns to recognize, kindle, and share the light within.

The Brightest Star in the Night Sky

A poem about longing, distance, and the pursuit of truth.

A Fleeting Silhouette in the Heart's Sky

A short poem tracing the silhouette of a passing mood.

Less is More

As AI makes code abundant, the harder engineering judgment is deciding which code deserves to remain.

Half a Beat Behind

A short poem about moving faster than the heart can follow.

The Silence at the Top of the Hill: AI, Absurdity, and the Questions We Should Ask

The AI era confronts us with competing futures, existential anxiety, and a question Camus knew well: how do we keep searching when the world refuses to answer?

The AI-Assisted Frontend Trap: Fast Demos, Fragile Systems

Coding agents can produce impressive frontend demos quickly, but production systems still depend on explicit state, verifiable rules, and human architectural judgment.

Narcissus and Goldmund

A poem about restraint, longing, and the divided faith within the self.

Knowing Myself

A poem about feeling, thinking, and the many selves within me.

The 40-Plus-Year AI Joke That Still Holds

A Daniel Dennett and Marvin Minsky joke still captures the paradox of fluent AI: useful enough to trust, strange enough to doubt, and powerful enough to demand human judgment.

Code Review in the Age of AI: Why It Matters More, Not Less

As AI makes code faster to produce, code review becomes the place where teams turn individual output into shared understanding, judgment, and durable software.

Rituals Against Autopilot

A reflection on rituals, intention, and staying present in the age of AI.

The Moment I Think of You

A short poem about love and loss.

The Brain That Rewrites Itself: How I Did It and How You Can Too

A reflection on neuroplasticity, reinvention, and how AI can become a scaffold for thinking.

Tell Me Why

A short poem about walking in the world while asking why.

Thoughts on the Art of Loving

A reflection on Erich Fromm, self-acceptance, and learning to practice love from inner fullness.

Better Without AI Than Enslaved by Its Whispers

The real danger of delusional spiral is not AI itself, but surrendering our judgment to it.

What Motivates Us in the Age of AI

A reflection on Drive, flow theory, and what it means to preserve autonomy, choice, and responsibility in the age of AI.

From Medium to My Own Blog: How Hermes Agent Built, Migrated, and Translated My Writing Archive

A four-hour experiment in using Hermes to build a blog, migrate 25 Medium articles, translate them into Chinese, and test the limits of AI agent workflows.

The Extended Mind in the Age of AI: Extension or Replacement?

Why Storytelling Is Harder Than Coding for LLMs

The Copernican View of Intelligence: We May Not Be the Center After All

The Loop We Share: What Reasoning Traces Reveal About How Humans Actually Think

The Hidden Risk of AI at Work: Faster Individuals, Fragmented Teams

After the Spark: AI and the Mind That Won’t Settle

The Cost of Letting AI Read for Us

Let’s talk about AI Psychosis/Brain Fry

MCP Is Not Dead. You’re Just Using It Wrong.

Harness Engineering: The Missing Layer Between AI Coding and Safe Automation for Financial Institutions

When AI Writes the Code, What Do You Write?

I’m Not Sure I’m a Programmer Anymore

The Love Language of AI

How to Keep Your AI-Generated Codebase Clean and Maintainable: The CRISP Strategy

Your AI Assistant Could Be Working for Hackers: The Hidden Prompt Injection Threat

Beyond Transformers: RockAI’s Alternative Path to AGI

Understanding AI’s Economic Impact Beyond Jobs

The Great NPM Shift: How AI Tools Redefined JavaScript’s Package Manager

Anthropic:AI Blackmail Is Real. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Confessions of an AI Anxious Mind: Why I’m Learning to Love the Revolution

Understanding LLM Embeddings: The Hidden Language AI Speaks

Finding Your Perfect AI Assistant: The Smart Way to Choose LLMs

Meet Gemini Diffusion: Google’s Bold New Approach to AI Writing

Is AI Cracking Reality’s Source Code?

Attention is All You Need: The Simple Idea Behind Today’s AI Revolution