#ai-harness
5 entries
writing · August 2026
The Flywheel and the Meter
Documented open models and pricing pain arrived in the same season, and I wanted to know whether the alignment is real or a rhyme. Building a flywheel to read my own usage, finding two moats where the argument assumed one, and a license question that answered itself while I wrote.
writing · August 2026
The Other Half of the Corpus
The benchmark I built in the last post measured my imagination, not my work. Your history is two corpora, artifacts and transcripts, and I had never indexed the second one.
writing · August 2026
When Retrieval Is Not the Question
What replaced the retrieval pipeline on the artifact side: a decay report that runs without a query, a fact lane for questions with one right answer, and disagreement surfaced rather than resolved.
projects · August 2026
varve
A local record lake over agent-session transcripts. Normalizes Claude Code, pi, and opencode session records into Parquet partitions and queries them with DuckDB. Files are canonical, the engine is disposable, and nothing leaves the machine.
projects · July 2026
gitlab-contribution
A Claude Code plugin for contributing to GitLab projects, above all the gitlab-org/gitlab monorepo, from a machine with no GitLab Development Kit: a no-GDK contribution spine beside GitLab's own agent skills vendored at a pinned commit, until the spine merged into gitlab-simulation.