Blog

Thinking
out loud

Notes on AI, agents and building products, from someone who ships both the design and the code. Written by me, every word.

Fable 5.1 is here. The 20x plan is still not 20x.

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 today at the same token price and a much cheaper cache. The subscription math underneath did not move, and the 50 percent boost ends in two weeks.

September 1, 2026

Apple caught up to the language. The 512GB Studio is still a waitlist.

Apple now sells Mac Studio on token bills and frontier-class inference. I ordered the 256GB M5 Ultra and retired the laptop. The configuration that holds GLM-5.2 properly is the one they will not take an order for.

August 28, 2026

Tools

Omarchy Quattro: the Linux desktop I did not expect to like

DHH spent a year turning his Arch setup into a distro. I installed it on two machines this week. Notes on why it works and where the agent story actually lands.

August 23, 2026

AI Workflow

Grok Bot has a computer. The product is that you never operate it.

Making the machinery disappear is the interesting part. The trust boundary should not disappear with it.

August 12, 2026

AI Workflow

I stopped choosing between Fable and Sol

Claude Fable 5 in one cmux pane, GPT-5.6 Sol in another. One works, the other reviews, and I keep the final call.

July 19, 2026

Tools

When a mobile app changes the privacy contract

Cursor's iOS launch exposed a deeper product problem: enabling a new feature should not quietly weaken a privacy promise users already chose.

July 3, 2026

Self-hosting

A homelab should give time back

Self-hosting is useful when recovery, updates and monitoring are designed in. Otherwise you bought yourself another job.

July 2, 2026

The frontier went behind a velvet rope. Mine runs on a Mac Studio.

GPT-5.6 opened with a limited partner preview and Fable 5 disappeared after its first release. Meanwhile GLM-5.2 handles much of my daily work on the Mac Studio in the other room.

June 28, 2026

AI Workflow

What running 12 AI agents actually changed

The models were not the hard part. Priorities, permissions, evidence and stopping rules were.

June 20, 2026

ChatGPT is on your phone. Apple just put AI in it.

Almost every phone already has a frontier model on it, running in someone else's data center. WWDC was Apple betting on the opposite architecture: computation that starts in the computer you bought and reaches for GPU server halls only when it has to.

June 12, 2026

AI & Development

Three Months With Opus 4.6, Then Everything Changed

Three months in, Opus 4.7 happened and a free local model caught what I couldn't. Notes from the daily driver seat.

April 27, 2026

AI & Development

Monitor VRAM usage across your LAN

I needed to know how much VRAM my Mac Studio was using from another room. No tool showed it. So I built a widget.

April 12, 2026

Anthropic built its most capable model yet. Then decided the world wasn't ready.

Claude Mythos Preview changes the economics of finding software vulnerabilities. Anthropic's decision to gate access is understandable, and still concentrates an uncomfortable amount of power.

April 8, 2026

Anthropic didn’t kill OpenClaw. It killed the illusion.

Anthropic made it explicit: third-party harnesses like OpenClaw no longer count against Claude subscription usage. That changes the economics, the trust and the ground AI builders stand on.

April 6, 2026

Dream belongs in the workflow, not another tab

Dream is my name for multimodal production inside an agent job. The useful part is carrying context through review, delivery and a passing build.

April 6, 2026

AI & Development

What 100K GitHub Stars Can and Cannot Tell Us About AI Coding

Claw Code crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in a day. The record claim matters less than the engineering underneath it: verification loops, small skills and disciplined context.

April 2, 2026

Claude Code's source leaked. Axios was hijacked the same day.

Anthropic shipped source maps in their npm package, exposing 500k+ lines of Claude Code. The same day, two malicious Axios releases turned a routine dependency update into remote-code execution. Two npm trust failures in one day.

March 31, 2026