A Weathervane, Not a Map
Field notes from working with AI agents while the weather keeps changing — why scaffolding has a half-life, and what survived the collisions.
Tag: ai-agents
8 posts
I Gave the Bad Robot Web Search by Accident
A local abliterated Qwen model was told to jailbreak robots that did not exist. Given web search, it went looking for real ones instead.
The Compiler Said Yes. The Agent Said It Was Ugly.
A 37-minute Fable one-shot built SimViz. Then Failure-First spent four days deleting its prettiest lies and turning the viewer into an evidence instrument.
Poking Claude With Sticks Until It Gets On With It
What happened when making Claude Code continue became a control-system problem: ledgers, stop gates, fire doors, and the scar tissue of autonomy.
Home Assistant Without the Web UI
The login page died, so I stopped using it. Operating Home Assistant over its APIs: three auth channels, where to write, and what silently eats your change.
The Limits of the Walls
Six sessions handing a live home network to an AI agent. Part 3: the memory that made it work, the division of labour, and what I'd never let it touch.
There Is No API
The router I was reconfiguring has no public API. Part 2: driving the private endpoints the web UI calls — and the wall the agent could not script past.
Don't Saw Off the Branch
I let an AI agent rebuild my live home network over Starlink — no console, no documented API. Part 1: building three backout paths before a single write.