· 2 min · updated Sep 27
writing
i write to find out whether an idea survives contact with a real system, so most of these start from something i traced, broke or shipped rather than something i read. the register is deliberately plain: name the failure, show the mechanism, mark exactly where it stops holding.
In this note02 sections
long-form on x
everything long-form goes to x first. the pieces on the writing wall are the ones that still hold up on a second reading — each one grew out of a run of posts, and each links back to the thread it came from.
- 4,264 — posts published since joining in february 2022
- 12 — long-form pieces on the writing wall
the contribution trail
the posts i trust most have a pull request under them, because anyone can check the artefact without ever meeting me.
- 350+ — pull requests to 50+ open-source projects
- 100+ — fixes merged upstream, mine and breken's, into projects with 800k+ combined github stars
- 10 — posts that walk through one of them, pull request linked
selected pieces
- I Audited Mem0. The Hardest Problems Lived Outside Retrieval (opens in a new tab) · 18 august 2026
- A Second Prompt Is Not an Independent Code Review (opens in a new tab) · 5 september 2026
- Your AI Agent Has Five Retry Loops. One Failure Can Become 243 Calls (opens in a new tab) · 2 august 2026
if any of it is worth arguing with, hit me up.