ai-native
The thesis. What it means to build around AI, not just use AI.
- EssayMemory that sleeps: a tiered memory architecture with daily promotionA two-tier retrieval system (semantic plus keyword), curated topic files as the source of truth, and a nightly pass that promotes session insights into the curated tier. What each piece does and what fails without it.
- StoryThe hackathon that started it allAn internal hackathon in February 2026, the merchant-risk problem the team had been chewing on for a year, and the day I stopped thinking of AI as a useful tool for tasks and started thinking of it as something you build a system around.
- EssayA personal AI operating environment: worked example and receiptsWhat happens when one person uses an AI coding assistant as the primary interface to a real physical and operational life, and fixes every failure that occurs along the way.
- EssayThree-way AI model debate as a pre-commit gate: receipts from several months of useRunning Claude, Gemini and GPT-5.4 on the same question in parallel, blind first round, informed afterwards. What works, what does not, and the confidence trap I did not predict.
- EssayWhat it means to be AI-nativeThe difference between using AI a lot and being AI-native: infrastructure as the limiting factor, not model capability.