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Notes on designing and building my own systems — what I made, the structures I chose, and where I got them wrong.
- 2026-08-11
The Cheapest Mac, One Month In: a Terminal, an Agent Box, and a Number That Lied
I bought Apple's cheapest laptop as a dumb SSH terminal. It turned out to be a good box to hand an AI agent — and the benchmark I reached for to explain its limits pointed the wrong way.
- hardware
- benchmarks
- agents
- 2026-08-04
Splitting a Companion in Two: the ANP-neo / Compass-neo Architecture
A conversation core with no memory of its own, and a memory service that never calls an LLM. The shape of my AI companion, in one diagram and three rules.
- architecture
- llm
- memory