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- 6 min read
I Built a Harness That Makes Videos: Research, Script, Design, Sound, Publish
A pipeline of agents and written rules that takes a story from the open internet to a finished video, and why the interesting part is not the generation but everything that decides what is worth making.
- 10 min read
The Rungs Don't Move: AI Pricing, and Why the Harness Is the Real Fight
Across three generations of OpenAI models the prices land on the same four numbers. What changes is how much intelligence stands on each rung. That reframes the price war, explains why building on top of frontier models has not got cheaper, and points at where the competition actually moved.
- 8 min read
The Em Dash Is a Tell: Making AI-Written Email Stop Sounding Like a Machine
One user's AI-drafted emails kept coming out full of em dashes. The root cause wasn't the model alone, it was our own pipeline teaching itself the habit. Why we stopped asking the model nicely and started enforcing the rule in code.
- 8 min read
From Widget Dashboard to AI Executive Assistant: The Full Story of Building alfred_
How a customizable widget dashboard for students evolved into an autonomous AI executive assistant that triages your inbox, drafts replies in your voice, and manages your calendar, so you can focus on the work that actually matters.