Tim Trailor

Topics

Curated topic pages with short, self-contained pieces. Below them, the tag archive for long-form writing grouped by subject.

Curated

Skills
Short pieces on the five custom skills: /autonomous, /debate, /dream, /deep-context, lessons-as-code.
5 short pieces

Tag archive

Every tag on every post. Click through for the full list of posts on that subject.

workflow
Skills, commands, the /autonomous runner, the daily patterns.
8 posts
infrastructure
Mac Mini, Tailscale, daemons, backups. The plumbing that makes the rest run.
7 posts
agents
Multi-model debate, subagents, review pipelines.
6 posts
ai-native
The thesis. What it means to build around AI, not just use AI.
5 posts
safety
Defence-in-depth. Allowlists, state gates, layered protection.
4 posts
memory
Topic files, vector search, keyword search, consolidation. How the system remembers.
3 posts
personal
Family. Kids. The stuff outside the code.
3 posts
risk
Twenty-five years in risk, plus the AI tools that now help.
3 posts
context
Context as an artifact, not a container.
2 posts
printers
Three printers. A lot of incidents. Specific receipts.
2 posts
lessons
Incidents turned into pre-flight checks.
2 posts
hooks
PreToolUse shell hooks that convert text rules into enforcement.
2 posts
mobile
Building from a phone while watching the kids.
1 post
governance
School governors and an Ofsted inspection.
1 post
retrieval
1 post
evaluation
1 post
disaster-recovery
What happens when the Mac Mini disk dies.
1 post
hackathon
The origin story. One day, one pipeline.
1 post
reliability
1 post
incidents
1 post