#Blog

Occasional notes on AI-native engineering.

• August 27, 2026

  I had the same post written in two registers. The theatrical one dropped all three limitations.

  LLM prose defaults to a three-act arc: setup, complication, reveal, lesson. I wanted the option turned off by default, so I built a skill for it. The measurement that justified the default came from writing one technical article twice.

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• August 27, 2026

  Four checks on whether a datacenter lease shows up in my own usage data

  In May 2026 Anthropic leased the whole of xAI's Colossus 1 for $1.25 billion a month. I assumed the effect was visible in my own Claude Code telemetry. It is not. Three checks contradict the assumption and a fourth explains where the apparent jump came from.

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• August 27, 2026

  I was certain I had felt a $15 billion datacenter deal. My own telemetry says I felt my backup script.

  A specimen, published unedited. This is the same investigation as the engineering-register version, written in the register a language model reaches for by default. It states three fewer limitations than the version next to it, and that is the point of publishing it.

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• August 26, 2026

  I mined a Claude Code skill out of 147 of my own sessions — and the data corrected me twice

  I kept retyping the same end-of-session paragraph. Instead of writing the shortcut from memory, I counted what I actually asked for across 145 projects of local transcripts. The counts disagreed with my self-image in two useful places.

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• June 28, 2026

  Three years of RevenueCat, from docs-in-a-second-tab to an agent shipping the whole paywall

  I've shipped RevenueCat to production across three Flutter apps since 2023. The SDK barely changed; the way I integrate it changed completely — from reading every doc by hand to an agent wiring the entire monetization layer.

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• June 27, 2026

  Why my Claude Code token count exploded in 2026 — and what Anthropic changed

  Of 10.8B tokens processed with Claude Code, almost all landed in the last three months. It looks like a late start. It isn't — here's what actually happened.

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