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Thoughts on engineering, AI, and solar tech.

Compared With What?

My mother saw 55 mg of cholesterol on my protein tub. I noticed how quickly we both wanted a conclusion.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash pricing update

DeepSeek cuts the August V4 Flash price increase. My same workload now projects to about ¥205 a month, down from ¥356 but still above the old ¥106.

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Same bug, same fix

The Codex app kept dying on websocket reconnects while the CLI worked fine. The fix was a .env file that isn't documented anywhere.

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Every customer gets their own sandbox

We're shipping per-company AI investigator bots as Docker sandboxes — one container, one bot, one memory silo per customer.

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The new bot needs scolding

Cloning a Hermes agent's memory and skills doesn't clone its usefulness. The bot grows by being talked to and corrected, often with some scolding.

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One Goal, One Sprint

Ultragoal breaks big tasks into small targets and lets the LLM track its own progress. No drift. No babysitting.

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My First ThinkPad

I waited a month for a ThinkPad T495, sent it away in under a day, and was still happy.

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