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
The public notebook, in order.
Essays, field notes, useful suspicions, and other attempts to get more precise about the present.
The Social Cost of Not Knowing
On ChatGPT, Amma, and the private relief of asking questions without being judged.
In a Very Chinese Time of My Life
On DeepSeek, dramas, supply chains, and the strange intimacy of geopolitical fascination.
The Aesthetics of Intelligence
On knowledge graphs, terminal screenshots, and the market for looking like you are thinking.
Formula One Cars for Grocery Runs
On overbuilt AI workflows, productivity theatre, and why impressive machinery still needs somewhere meaningful to go.
smolgate, or How I Learnt to Be Okay With Smaller Context Windows
On context windows, hoarding, and the fantasy that more memory equals better thought.
The Goldilocks Conundrum for AI Enthusiasts
On model maximalism, capability theatre, and learning when not to call the CEO to decide lunch.
Cheap Intelligence Changes Human Psychology More Than Smarter Intelligence
On token anxiety, abundant retries, and the weird freedom of not treating every prompt like a prayer.
The System That Eats Itself
On context drift, compaction, and why the human still has to hold the telos.
Tsa
On Tibetan monks, sycophantic AI, and why your LLM is too agreeable to be useful.
The Harness Is the Moat
On AI, knowledge work, and a Sunday night in Bangalore that got away from me.
What We Lost on the Way to Faster
On typing, voice input, and the friction that was doing something.
Usage Anxiety
Like range anxiety, but for your thinking.
Hello, world
A short first note on what this place is for, and why a quiet corner of the internet still feels worth making.