Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
I gave Codex full access to my machine for one afternoon. It deleted about 300GB of files from my C and D drives. This happened to a user on X last week. They wanted to use up their Codex credits before a reset, so they asked the agent to remotely verify their project scripts and … Read more
I’m not here to debate whether AI-generated content should be labeled. That ship has sailed. The more interesting question, to me, is what happens when those labels get stitched into the fabric of code itself. Anthropic just announced that starting August 2, 2026, all new Claude models will include built-in AI-generated content marking. Two techniques: … Read more
I’ve been using AI coding assistants for a while now. I started with Trae, specifically its SOLO mode. It felt like the WebStorm of AI editors — everything worked out of the box, and I never had to think about how to talk to it. It just understood me. Then I switched to Claude Code. … Read more
The hype around Prime Agent is getting ridiculous. People are calling it the next step toward AGI. Some claim that with Opus 5, it scores 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, beating the human expert baseline of 95.4%. That’s a big number. But I kept reading the same talking points everywhere — “RLM,” “Continual Harness,” “prompt-as-a-variable” — and … Read more
On August 6, DeepSeek dropped a short announcement that sent ripples through the developer community: they’re planning a “significant” price increase for their API. No numbers. Just a warning that the hike is coming, and it’s going to be big. Honestly? I wasn’t surprised. Pricing isn’t the only thing shifting. WorkBuddy is pushing an expert-level … Read more