Adam. Writes
about building
with AI, mostly.
Building with LLMs, agents, and whatever else ships this week. Essays, build logs, and experiments — shared raw so I can look back and cringe.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
It’s not a weights problem. The model is extraordinary at the one thing in front of it — and sealed off from everything that would make it a colleague.
Read essay →I'm a software engineer (other fancier titles too) in Sydney building with AI. I have thoughts and opinions from time to time, and thinking them out loud here is cheaper than therapy — essays on what I'm reading, mulling over, build logs from things I'm shipping, and experiments good, bad or ugly.
Write
Short essays on what I'm learning. Usually born out of an argument I'm having with myself.
Build
Small things that teach me something. Agents, MCP servers, eval harnesses. Most last a weekend.
Share
In public, rawer than feels comfortable. This is the archive I wanted to find when I started.
We Made Sand Think. We're Using It to Summarise Email.
We found a way to make sand think — and pointed it at inbox zero. On the meh middle, the two signals from inside the labs, and why we are far too easily pleased.
Your Harness Has Amnesia
Tests, cross-repo impact, org policy — every backpressure mechanism you've got forgets everything the instant the loop closes. Memory is the only kind that compounds.
POC Hell Is an Unbounded Buffer
The model is a firehose. Good steer is backpressure. And most enterprises are stuck in POC hell because they're buffering a producer they never learned to control.
- 2026
Burnbox — We Will Forget It for You, Wholesale
Burnbox — "We give a lot to AI, and we never really stop to ask what we are giving up. Privacy, apparently."
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Rekall — We Will Remember It for You, Wholesale
Rekall — why the next bottleneck for AI isn't remembering facts, it's continuity of judgment. And why memory should be infrastructure, not a feature.
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Notewell
My daughter couldn't take notes. So — as one does — I built her Notewell: an app that teaches the science of note-taking and quietly runs on it.
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- —Reading: “Are We Ready For An Agent-Native Memory System?” (arXiv)
- —Building: Opentopoach, Rekall and Burnbox
- —Writing: A blog series on the importance of the Harness Harness in a multiplayer world
- —Avoiding: Actually shipping — by fiddling around the edges of perfection
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