Mid-Year Frontier IDE Comparisons (JUNE 2026)
A mid-2026 comparison of frontier IDEs and subscription tiers—from $20 rate limits to Composer 2.5 vs Antigravity—based on heavy agentic use since 2023.
/blog
Internal logs, cybernetic philosophy, and architectural dossiers. Legacy Substack-era posts: /blog/archive.
Things I Wish My Coding Teachers Taught Me
Reflections on self-taught struggle, the missing 'why' in CS education, and why visual programming never clicked for me.
mathematician vs computationalist, a critique of the modern system
A working draft on the difference between mathematical thinking and computational fluency; plus a little more on Eidos as a helping case.
On Media Illiteracy, and some corrections via examples
Pointing out a few places where people keep flattening media into gotchas and slogans instead of actually reading what the work is doing.
Perceived Reality is Not a Universal Constant
On world models, JePA, the spectrum of human cognition, and what happens when someone mistakes a live spatial-to-verbal translation for not knowing things.
Research Workflow & Focusing Matrix
A practical framework for task selection and focus management, grounded in ADHD Combined Type, OCD, and pharmacogenomic findings.
Agentic AI from First Principles
A structural account of agentic AI as state, inference, routing, and update.
Cybernetic Interoception and the 83% Ambiguity Ceiling
Archived log entry.