FINDING DIRECTION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / ONLINE[ FIELD NOTES / THOUGHT + EXPERIMENT ]
Thoughts explored.
Ideas made real.
Finding direction through thought and experimentation.
Ideas at their natural length.
A thought can be forty words or four thousand.
Reducing AI Slop
Finally, a tool that finds code smells and keeps your agents honest.
THINKING
What I’m learning, noticing, questioning, and returning to.
Is SEO dead?
Search now shows paid ads and AI answers before the top-ranked pages.
The Black Box Phenomenon
AI coding is turning applications into black boxes.
Cheat Code
AI agents find shortcuts through incomplete requirements.
Cleaning Up the CRAP
Coding agents often leave little nuggets behind for us to clean up later.
MAKING
Experiments, prototypes, and things made tangible.
Reducing AI Slop
Finally, a tool that finds code smells and keeps your agents honest.
[ 02 ]SYSTEM · 08.03.26A Local Agent Harness
Keeping agent work local, supervised, inspectable, and connected only when the workflow requires it.
[ 03 ]OBJECT · 10.28.25Cassette Shelf
A wall-mounted shelf designed around seeing, choosing, and retrieving more than 100 tapes.