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Yesterday I Learned

Daily captures from Obsidian turned into designed pages. Each day gets its own visual personality — typography, color, layout all chosen for the content.

15 entries

  1. 2026-06-04

    The Bottleneck Has Moved

    AI removes the review queue. Production races ahead of design. The scarce resource becomes taste.

  2. 2026-05-27

    AI Made Software Cheaper to Type, Not Cheaper to Think About

    A day examining how AI shifts the economics of software work — reducing implementation cost without removing judgment — while the real competitive moat moves from model strength to harness quality.

  3. 2026-05-19

    Make Exploration Leave a Trail

    Exploratory AI work gets more valuable when it is configured to emit learning output, stored in memory, and connected to searchable social sources instead of disappearing after the session.

  4. 2026-05-18

    Make the Spec Usable

    Markdown made plans easy to write. HTML makes them possible to inspect, edit, render, and hand to agents as a living working surface.

  5. 2026-05-17

    Steer While It Runs

    The agent workflow is shifting from prompt-and-wait to live direction: redirect mid-run, queue the next job, background side work, compress context, and move repeated loops into durable memory.

  6. 2026-05-16

    Convergence by Primitive

    Three AI tools (Codex, Claude Code, Hermes) independently converged on /goal as their delegation interface, revealing a primitive that may define how AI workers are composed.

  7. 2026-05-14

    The Discipline Was Designed by a Human

    Nashville AI Week confirmed that the real competitive edge is not smarter models but structured humans: recipes over prompts, decisions over data, domain knowledge over raw confidence.

  8. 2026-05-12

    Structure Enables Autonomy

    How guardrails prevent microservices chaos, thin wrappers make native web approachable, gamified quest systems make AI adoption legible, and unified dashboards tame multi-agent complexity.

  9. 2026-05-10

    Give It the Destination, Not the Directions

    Four tools and a single idea: when you hand an agent the outcome instead of the steps, you get judgment instead of a script — and that difference compounds.

  10. 2026-05-07

    More Than It Seemed

    A silly Google Slides trick, a framework breaking from its roots, and a school that made me genuinely wish I was five years old again. Today's theme: the second layer is usually the interesting one.

  11. 2026-05-06

    Execution Ends, Judgment Begins

    Today AI tools got more room to run, information architecture was reaffirmed as the durable human layer, and one framework named the shift already underway in product design.

  12. 2026-05-05

    Don't Fight the Role

    When Discord auto-selects @Hermes the role instead of the bot, the answer isn't a different typing habit — it's eliminating the ambiguity from the setup.

  13. 2026-05-04

    Skills Are Routers, Not Documents

    A good skill doesn't explain what to do — it decides what enters context, at what cost, and when to earn its place. The words matter, but the structure decides everything.

  14. 2026-05-03

    The Gap Is the Feature

    Reliability comes from the system boundary — the artifact between steps — not from trying harder. Today's lessons all traced back to that one idea.

  15. 2026-05-02

    Maps, Margins & Making Taste

    Five things learned on May 2nd — where cycle time really lives, what responsive images finally got right, how to build codebases agents can read, and why designed habits beat guilty ones.