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• What I got wrong about agents after 200 hours

  The five things I kept believing that turned out to be wrong.

  Oct 15, 2026

• How I use M3 for the boring 80% of coding

  The workflow that lets a cheap model do most of the work.

  Oct 12, 2026

• When M3 tells me no and I listen

  Three times the cheap model pushed back on me and was right.

  Oct 10, 2026

• Pair-programming with two agents at once

  I ran Claude and Codex on the same task. Here's what happened.

  Oct 8, 2026

• First impressions of M3 for code work

  A week in, here's what MiniMax M3 is good at and what it isn't.

  Oct 5, 2026

• My weekly AI stack (October 2026)

  What's actually installed and running. No sponsors. No affiliate links.

  Oct 1, 2026

• An agent that runs my morning routine

  How I automated the boring 30 minutes before I start working.

  Sep 30, 2026

• When Codex is the right tool and when it isn't

  I use both Codex and Claude. Here's how I pick which one for a given task.

  Sep 28, 2026

• Backups that don't make me nervous

  Proxmox Backup Server, retention, and the verification step everyone skips.

  Sep 25, 2026

• Why I stopped using the system prompt

  I moved the project rules out of the chat and into a file the agent reads every time.

  Sep 22, 2026

• The day Claude caught a bug I'd been ignoring for a week

  A real bug-hunt session, the prompts that worked, and the one that didn't.

  Sep 20, 2026

• What changes when the model has a terminal

  Tool use is the unlock. Here's what I actually let the agent run.

  Sep 18, 2026

• What I delegate to Claude vs what I write myself

  The judgment call that defines my workflow.

  Sep 15, 2026

• Setting up GPU passthrough for local LLM serving

  The IOMMU groupings are the part nobody talks about.

  Sep 12, 2026

• Codex in my terminal: a one-week review

  What I tried, what stuck, and what I went back to the editor for.

  Sep 10, 2026

• Comparing four models on my actual codebase

  I gave Claude, GPT, Codex, and M3 the same five tasks. Here's how they did.

  Sep 8, 2026

• Homelab tour: my Proxmox cluster in a closet

  Three nodes, one closet, no rack, lots of fans.

  Sep 5, 2026

• VLANs for a home that doesn't need a SOC

  How I segment my home network without going overboard.

  Sep 2, 2026

• Teaching Claude my conventions through 10 PR comments

  The loop I use to get the agent to write code that matches the codebase.

  Aug 30, 2026

• Building a small RAG over my own notes

  2000 chunks, four embedding models, and what I learned about chunking.

  Aug 28, 2026

• Why I let Claude read the whole repo before asking

  Context is the whole game. Here's the size budget I use.

  Aug 25, 2026

• The 5 tools I actually open every day

  Out of 200+ installed, these are the ones that actually get used.

  Aug 20, 2026

• Terraforming my home network with pfSense

  Treat the home network like code. The full Terraform setup.

  Aug 18, 2026

• Why I started writing in public

  Three years of doing it. What I learned. Why I keep going.

  Aug 15, 2026

• Why I picked Proxmox over ESXi and unRaid

  The honest tradeoffs between the three big home virtualization platforms.

  Aug 12, 2026

• Building a Python CLI with Claude in 4 hours

  A real session, the prompts I used, and where the agent saved me time.

  Aug 8, 2026