Building My Own Private AI Search Agent That Actually Works
I built a local AI search system with gpt-oss 20B that handles a surprising amount of my AI search queries.
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The Comfortable Plateau
When every domain feels instantly familiar, do we lose the ability to recognize what we don't actually know?
Training Myself to Think in Parallel: From 10,000 Hours to 10 Concurrent Contexts
AI agents require a completely different mindset: parallel thinking, externalized context, and orchestration over implementation.
The Questions AI Coding Agents Are Forcing Me to Ask
As I help my teams adopt AI coding agents, I'm grappling with fundamental questions about productivity, team dynamics, architecture, and infrastructure that don't have easy answers yet.
Why 2025 Feels Like 2005: AI and the Rebirth of Personal Computing
The release of Claude Code and other advanced AI software development tools marks a pivotal moment in personal computing—one that feels remarkably similar to the Web 2.0 revolution of the mid-2000s.
When I graduated college the web and computers felt totally different than they do today. For years,
Building GPT from scratch using Apple MLX
I spent some time recently recreating the GPT model alongside the video from Andrej Karpathy using the Apple MLX machine learning framework.
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