The other day I watched a friend of mine, an Ivy League-educated professor in the liberal arts, work with Claude. The conversation went in circles, and they never articulated what their goal was. Each reply from Claude was reasonable given what it...
A few months ago I wrote about the greenhouse and the lens, the idea that agentic AI work splits into two modes: a greenhouse where you let everything grow and pick out what’s worth keeping later, and a lens where you focus on a known target. I’ve...
A greenhouse and a lens both run on sunlight, and they do opposite things with it. The greenhouse traps ambient heat and holds it, so everything inside grows a little faster than it would outside: flowers, herbs, weeds, whatever happens to be in t...
The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll system you had to understand garnishments and pre-tax deductions and what happens when ...
Last month I wrote that skills are the most underrated feature in agentic AI. Everything I’ve built since has made me more convinced. The latest example: a user-story-creator skill that I used to write a user story in the OneBusAway vehicle-positi...
