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Because context eats process for breakfast

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24
Jun
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A Grand Unified Theory of Metal and Software Testing (Please Don't Email Me)

Last July, somewhere between a record shop and a leather stall in Copenhagen, my teenager and I had one of
14 min read
12
Jun
Hands raised at a metal festival, silhouettes against warm stage lights

We built a website and learned everything except coding

"Hey dad, can you come pick me up? I don't want to take the bus." If
8 min read
21
May
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Using AI is more than... well, using AI...

Seven years ago I wrote a post about the Mountain of Test Automation Doom. Most-read thing I've published
8 min read
13
May
18th-century French star chart of the Virgo constellation (La Vierge), showing a winged maiden figure overlaid on a star map grid with Roman numerals

I Built the Graph. Then It Drew Itself.

The thing I wanted to know was simple. Which files in my knowledge base actually get used together? Not "
7 min read
04
May
Silhouette of a telecommunications tower with antennas and dishes against a soft sunset sky, smaller towers on the horizon

Error Budgets, Not Validators

I read a piece on agentic AI governance this weekend and halfway through it I had a small embarrassed moment.
5 min read
16
Apr
Elaborate vintage industrial control room with gauges, wheels, and an ornate red control panel

I Built a Personal Assistant. I Use a Search Box.

So I built myself a Personal Assistant. Capital P, capital A. A few months of work. Autonomous routines, email triage,
6 min read
02
Apr
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The Model I Trusted Broke First

I've been working with AI assistants for over four years now. Started with ChatGPT, moved to Claude about
6 min read
18
Mar
A man in a deerstalker hat looking through a magnifying glass, Sherlock Holmes style

I Put a Filesystem in the Middle of Everything

The idea was elegant. Mount a FUSE passthrough filesystem at ~/knowledge/, let every file access flow through it, and log
8 min read
13
Mar
Fossilised fish skeleton preserved in sandstone rock

I Read Patrick's Eight Bones and Recognised My Own Skeleton

My friend Patrick Prill published a post this week called "System Seeing Adventure - The AI Lock-In Catastrophe."
6 min read
12
Mar
Shelves filled with old documents and papers, crammed and overflowing

My AI Remembered Everything. That Was the Problem.

I asked the knowledge base who Fredrik works with and got back 85 documents. An email from 2014 said Softhouse.
8 min read