Writing
Notes from the build log.
Essays and technical write-ups on agents, evaluation, hardware hacks, and neuroscience, including what didn't work.
2026
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GrowLab: Scaling Laws Assume Model Size Is Constant. What If It Grows?
Training compute is the area under the parameter-count curve, and a rectangle is only one shape with a given area. We built a harness where the growth schedule is a searchable parameter, handed it to an autonomous research agent, and the...
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The Coding Agent Is the Software — Introducing Octopus
You don't ship code. You ship an agent that figures out how to write the code. Octopus turns any device into an agent-controllable MCP server — at install time, on whatever hardware happens to be plugged in.
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We Built a Backpack That Thinks: DriftPak at HardMode 2026
At HardMode 2026 at MIT Media Lab, our team built DriftPak — an AI-powered backpack that can see, hear, speak, and know where it is. Here's the full story of how we went from a Pi and a pile of ESP32s to a sentient bag.
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Letting Go of What You Know
The panic a lot of knowledge workers are feeling is not about whether AI will take their jobs. It is about whether the years they spent learning to do hard things manually were worth it. I think the answer is: it does not matter anymore....
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Fork Intelligence: Red-Teaming the Public-Fork Hackathon Format
At a Google DeepMind x Cactus Compute hackathon, I used Claude Code to scrape every competitor's fork, benchmark all 45 modified solutions, and synthesize a top-scoring submission from the best of them. This is a vulnerability disclosure.
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How We Won a BCI Hackathon: Decoding Brain Signals on the Edge
Team MindMeld placed 1st at BrainStorm 2026 by decoding 1024-channel brain recordings in real-time on edge hardware. Here's the full technical breakdown of our winning approach.
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ChatMerge: What If You Could Merge AI Conversations?
If you use AI chat tools regularly, you’ve run into this. You have two or three conversations going in parallel, maybe originally about different things, and at some point you realize they’ve converged. You want one chat to be able to se...
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session-merge: Fixing Claude Code's Split Session Problem
Claude Code sessions silently fragment when you cd between directories or exit and resume. I built session-merge to detect and fix split sessions — merging them back into one continuous conversation.
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Using Claude Code to Improve Claude Code: Two Skills That Keep Me Sane
I’ve been using Claude Code heavily for the past few months — for research projects, web apps, scripts, even writing. And I completely get it now when the creators say they’re using Claude Code to build Claude Code. Once you start workin...