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Listen to this article instead Your browser does not support the audio element AI agents are having a moment. OpenClaw (née Clawdbot, née Moltbot1) just hit 200k GitHub stars. People are driving a Mac Mini shortage just to manage their email, book flights, and order groceries. Someone launched a fake $CLAWD crypto token that hit $16 million before crashing 90%. Its creator joined OpenAI. There’s a social network for AI agents now. These agents can do genuinely useful and awesome things. But let’s be honest: sending emails and checking you in for flights is not exactly exciting. What if, instead of a boarding pass, we gave our AI agent a sword? ...

Listen to this article instead Your browser does not support the audio element Once upon a time I wrote a post about building a toy TF-IDF keyword search engine. It has been one of the more popular posts I’ve written, and in this age of AI I felt a sequel has been long overdue. It’s pretty fast (even though it’s written in pure Python), it ranks results with TF-IDF, and it can rank 6.4 million Wikipedia articles for a given query in milliseconds. But it has absolutely no context of what words mean. ...

I haven’t really touched my blog since 2019. The theme was ancient, jQuery was everywhere, and I kept putting off the migration. Then I decided to let an LLM do it. Here’s what happened when Claude Code spent an evening trying to modernize my setup. Listen to this article instead Your browser does not support the audio element The situation It’s October 2025, and my blog is running on a Hugo theme from 2018 (the inimitable hyde-x) that was last updated when people still thought cryptocurrency was going to revolutionize everything1. The site worked fine (Google Analytics tells me there were at least three people who stumbled on my posts every month), but every time I thought about writing something new, I’d open the repo and would immediately run head-first into approximately all of the tech debt. ...