Shipping systems, creative process, prompting practice, context control, traffic timing, revision, and production habits.
23 articles
AI doesn't just hallucinate facts. It halluccinates authority. The model sounds confident, the output looks polished, and the work underneath got quieter, safer, and less honest than it was when you started.
Read Article →Built Spectral Cyclops because visual regressions are invisible until they're not. It crawls the app, diffs the pixels, and opens the PR. The watcher is where it gets interesting.
Read Article →Twenty apps, one workflow. How to go from idea to shipped open-source tool in a single session — and what to cut before anyone sees it.
Read Article →Before vibe coding was a word. Before anyone admitted it out loud. The combination of man and machine is something special and sacred — and the most underrated part of it has nothing to do with output. It's the brainstorm. The stream of consciousness finding its own shape.
Read Article →The first cleanup pass killed the AI sludge. Good. It also made some of the archive too polite, too uniform, and too essay-shaped. Rewilding is what happens when you put the teeth, fingerprints, and repo links back.
Read Article →Remix for music. Hybrid for weed. Same principle: keep the genetics, improve the expression. We're polishing 40+ Ghost articles right now. SEO optimization + context management happening simultaneously. This article explains the technique while demonstrating it. Meta-recursive workflow.
Read Article →Started with an open-source red team repo. Ended with a rough map of how AI assistants can assemble attacker logic fast if you frame the questions right. The useful version of that is not theft. It is recovery, tracing, evidence handling, and understanding how people actually lose money on-chain.
Read Article →Tone work gets stupid fast if you treat every sentence like a constitutional crisis. The point of a baseline is not paralysis. It is calibration.
Read Article →Most AI workflow advice is too big. The real gains come from tiny steering moves that keep a session from drifting. /btw in Claude is the one I use most — especially in game design, where the gap between spec and playtest is enormous.
Read Article →Hartl said knowing the command line made you dangerous. He was right. In 2026 the AI is running the commands. If you can't audit the script it generated, you're not the operator. You're the liability.
Read Article →Playtest disasters are usually already in the build. The only question is whether you find them while they still feel like engineering or after a player turns them into memory.
Read Article →Ran this audit on the site you're reading. Found 47 issues. 23 critical or high. Here's the full prompt. Copy it. Claude does the work. You fix what it finds.
Read Article →High context is not the same thing as failure. Most people panic too early, keep too much alive, and let the conversation turn into a junk drawer. The fix is not drama. It is triage.
Read Article →The boring log entry is not boring. It is signal inside noise. ggplot2 and Seaborn are not academic tools — they are how you see the heartbeat of a hidden process, the geography of a coordinated attack, the smoothed-over spike of an active exfiltration.
Read Article →Three books are out. The useful question is no longer whether they exist. It is whether the later pass can sharpen voice, rebalance reward, and make the series feel more like itself instead of merely more finished.
Read Article →Writers confuse authenticity with exposure more often than they should. The work needs a pulse. It does not need your exact coordinates, your leaked keys, or a breadcrumb trail to the people around you.
Read Article →AI wrote this site. Then repeated itself in 8 articles. Same concepts restated 2-3 times per piece. Not user error. Architecture problem. Transformer models trained on repetitive data create repetitive output. Here's why the loop happens, exact patterns to detect, red team prompting techniques that prevent it.
Read Article →Backend logic tolerates vagueness better than interface work. UI asks for taste, proportion, and exactness. Without that, the model gives you a poster version of what you thought you meant.
Read Article →Old content is not dead content. Attention moves in waves, and sometimes the smartest move is not to write something new but to wake up something real at the right moment.
Read Article →I love AI. I loathe social media. The work still needs to reach people. For some temperaments the only sane answer is to put a machine between your nervous system and the feed.
Read Article →Static resumes flatten people. A living skills log across VS Code and Codex shows what you actually learned, built, refined, and proved over time.
Read Article →A story told in two formats is not repetition. It is pressure testing. What prose can hide, a screenplay exposes. What a screenplay flattens, a novel can finally let breathe. The second version tells you what the first one was protecting.
Read Article →Pocket Gems taught me AI before the hype. Writing romance erotica for mobile games showed me what collaboration looked like. Then I went rogue. Over 100 books. 10 months. Every genre I could find. This is what systematic creativity looks like when you stop asking permission and start building.
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