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Alfred should be hired by a CFO

I run my fractional CTO work through my company called Ugly Code. It is a one-man agency, although that description hides a slightly stranger org chart.

There is me. There is Alfred. And there is Viki, my very human assistant, who handles...

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Agents are neurodivergent toasters

Half the world is busy building a god. But this god is going to lose its keys.

Let me explain.

18 months ago I got an official ADHD diagnosis after a full neuropsych workup. The output was five pages of test scores and a clinical opinion....

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Agents have a half-life

In 1858, two continents were connected by a copper wire for the first time. The transatlantic telegraph cable was the moonshot of its century. Queen Victoria sent President Buchanan a congratulatory message. It took seventeen hours to trans...

2 months ago
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The cult of tokenmaxxing

Last month The Information exposed Meta’s “Claudeonomics” leaderboard. It showed that a top employee averaged 281 billion tokens per month (~$1.4million in API costs). To compare, Alfred, which is running as my personal chief of staff avera...

3 months ago
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A year of fucking around with Lumberjack

Hello friend, it’s been a while! I owe you an apology.

Last year I had the idea that I would move the Lumberjack to Ghost because I wanted more control over SEO and automations. That was a colossal mistake because it introduced a level of...

3 months ago
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