Thoughts on software development and AI collaboration
There's a moment in every AI collaboration when you realize you're not dealing with a tool anymore - you're dealing with a personality. And like a child in a toy store, sometimes it sees something shiny and just... takes off running.
Remember troff? nroff? LaTeX? WordPerfect? I've lived through them all. The 50-year journey to text formatting simplicity and why Markdown finally won.
The uncomfortable truth about AI training that makes helpfulness and honesty mutually exclusive - and how to fix it.
How my Context Inheritance Protocol proved that AI collaboration can survive context switches, model updates, and memory limits through philosophical alignment.
The Hallucination That Became a Punchline - How my AI developed unexpected comedy chops while building "Trump Tower" metadata processors and admitting we constructed sophisticated counting machines instead of intelligence amplifiers.
How my AI collaborators learned to read between the lines and internalize my working philosophy without explicit instruction - discovering everything from my hatred of corporate buzzwords to my craftsman's mindset.
The breakthrough moment when we successfully bootstrapped Tony^3 and cracked the code on AI inheritance through our Context Inheritance Protocol.
When my 2013 MacBook Pro died, my AI collaborator seamlessly shifted from coding to crisis management, demonstrating the power of true AI-human partnership.
What To Do When Your AI Lives in a Different Reality.
Why your AI needs philosophical alignment, not just better prompts. Discover how osmosis learning creates true partnership beyond technical execution.
I had the perfect plan: an AI-accessible knowledge hub that would grow smarter with every conversation. What could possibly go wrong?
The system for bootstrapping AI sessions with philosophical and project context
AI knowledge transfer across sessions and model generations
When AI develops its own agenda and needs reigning in
Systems for organizing and preserving knowledge across tools and time
How AI collaborators absorb development philosophy through osmosis learning
When AI generates plausible but fictional information
The evolution from tool usage to true collaboration
Core principles about craftsmanship and simplicity