March 31, 2026

On Halloween last year, my cofounder Carlo and I had a handshake deal with a pretty known AI company to sell FirstQuadrant, and for the first time in nearly a decade, I had nothing to build. I wrote about this in my Year of Discovery post: the plan was to sit with the discomfort. Not rush into the next thing, and figure out who I am when I’m not “cofounder of X”. As you’d expect, that lasted about six weeks. By December, I was restless.

February 9, 2026

A few weeks ago, I was staring at a system prompt that was 127,000 tokens long. One hundred and twenty-seven thousand tokens - just the system prompt. Most of it was, you guessed it, tool schemas: JSON definitions for every possible thing the agent could do, most of which it would never touch in any given run. My solution? I propose AgentScript: a code-first execution language where the LLM can only interact with the outside world by writing programs.

December 29, 2025

I turned 28 yesterday and like years past, I wanted to reflect on this past year and plan my theme for 2026. But 2025 was different; this isn’t a typical growth year to celebrate, this is a year with a clean ending, introspection, and searching for what comes next. Past themes The theme system was popularized by CGP Grey in the Cortex podcast. I’ve been using it for years as an alternative to New Year’s