#AI

Since implementing better, more professional harnesses and constraints around my agentic development and having Codex and Claude review each other's PR's, things feel very different. When you're in full YoLo vibecode mode, you think of an idea and it's on the page five minute later. But I'm trying to harness this stuff to build proper, functioning, robust, maintainable, coherent software. So I'm forgoing dopamine for quality. But it feels very different. I feel more like when I was a Product Manager frustrated at how long it takes to add a button to a form. Everything is slower now, but *I think* the quality is improving. It's less fun though. PR222: This stupid little PR with a tiny change has been a menace. I was starting to get really frustrated - it felt like the goalposts kept shifting and I ended up in this endless loop where this PR was blocking lost of other work, but I just couldn't coax it through the integrator (a harness that merges these changes). Somehow, we beat that motherfucker. Slow news day here

The dopamine is flowing with OpenAI Codex today. I've got Claude and Codex reviewing each other's work systematically and while progress seems slower than the heady days of any early project, it feels like every move is way more considered and the output is improving code quality. A lot of my current work is developing using frontier models to build applications and harnesses using self hosted LLMs and RAG. My next step is going to be to bring as much of the coding "in house" as possible.

New 10" rack in place. From bottom to top: - Cat 6A Patch Panel - Unifi Flex 2.5G POE Switch - Unifi Cloud Gateway Fiber - Adtran XGS-PON (Fiber Modem) - GL.Inet POE KVM - Mac Studio (AI Lab) - Philips Hue Hub / Gateway Sad that the rack mount housing for my Mac Studio and the KVM haven't shown up yet, but it is now nice and neatly set up. The Mac Studio won't stay here forever, but is just going to sit here while my house is being finished and it can move into my home lab. The patch panel connects to the first wired access point a Unifi Pro 7 - But there's still 3 or 4 more to wire in over the next month or so