When AI Plays Your Cards
I built an AI poker tutor with two LLM-powered agents — one plays against you, the other coaches you. Here's the story of building The Nut, and what it taught me about where AI actually belongs in a game.
My Remote Agent Experiment: OpenClaw, Honest Results, and a Plot Twist from Anthropic
I set up a dedicated M4 Mac Mini running OpenClaw as a remote coding agent — isolated network, its own Apple ID, Slack interface. The vision was beautiful. The results were not. Then Anthropic announced exactly what I actually needed.
Getting Started with Agentic Dev — Part 1: Your Toolkit
Part 1 of a 3-part series on getting started with agentic software development. Everything you need to install and configure to start working with AI coding agents.
My New Commute: From the Office to the Kitchen
After thirteen years of working from home, I discovered that the transition from work to family doesn't happen on its own. My commute is gone, but I found something better to take its place.
Introducing AI Labs — Learning in Public
Announcing AI Labs, a personal portfolio of AI experiments built for learning, tinkering, and sharing knowledge the way the web was meant to work.
From Custom AI Plumbing to Spring AI 1.1: How Native Tool Calling Transformed Our Caddie Agent
How migrating from a hand-rolled AI tool-calling system to Spring AI 1.1's native tool support cut our orchestration code nearly in half—and made adding new capabilities trivial.