Tara and the Absence of Wu Wei
On building Tara, forcing OpenCode into the wrong shape, and realizing the missing thing was not a better interface but a reason for the interface to exist.
Writing
Essays, field notes, useful suspicions, and other attempts to get more precise about the present.
On building Tara, forcing OpenCode into the wrong shape, and realizing the missing thing was not a better interface but a reason for the interface to exist.
On ChatGPT, Amma, and the private relief of asking questions without being judged.
On DeepSeek, dramas, supply chains, and the strange intimacy of geopolitical fascination.
On knowledge graphs, terminal screenshots, and the market for looking like you are thinking.
On overbuilt AI workflows, productivity theatre, and why impressive machinery still needs somewhere meaningful to go.
On context windows, hoarding, and the fantasy that more memory equals better thought.
On model maximalism, capability theatre, and learning when not to call the CEO to decide lunch.
On token anxiety, abundant retries, and the weird freedom of not treating every prompt like a prayer.
On context drift, compaction, and why the human still has to hold the telos.
On Tibetan monks, sycophantic AI, and why your LLM is too agreeable to be useful.
On AI, knowledge work, and a Sunday night in Bangalore that got away from me.
On typing, voice input, and the friction that was doing something.
Like range anxiety, but for your thinking.
A short first note on what this place is for, and why a quiet corner of the internet still feels worth making.