Vol. I · No. 1 · Montreal
Herman.
Watching AI change everything, in real time, and writing it down.
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#tools

Every essay in the dispatch tagged with tools, in reverse chronological order.

All agentic-engineering agents ai ai-safety ambition architecture claude-code context decomposition engineering engineering-leadership enterprise evaluation executive harness-engineering hitchhikers-guide industry intent jevons-paradox job-market judgment karpathy leadership mcp memory openai orchestration productivity skills specification strategy throughput tools
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I Know Kung Fu: Load Only the Skills the Mission Needs
Claude Code skills are not plugins. They are not tools. They are knowledge, uploaded at the precise moment it's needed.
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Your IDE is a Dead Pixel
The IDE was designed for humans who write code. If agents write the code, the IDE becomes what the light table became to Disney animators.
Ai
The Genius Who Can't Say 'I Don't Know'
Gemini 3 Flash is fast, cheap, and brilliant. It also doesn't know what it doesn't know. First place in knowing. Near last in knowing what it doesn't know.