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Human in the Loop
Notes on AI agents, building, and what still needs a human.
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- Agents in the Loop I Migrated My Site to Cloudflare from My Phone A Vercel usage warning at 7:51 AM became a finished Cloudflare migration by 10: static pages off the meter, eleven API endpoints on a Worker, data in R2, and a zero-downtime domain flip. The whole thing ran through a phone chat, and the piece that made the phone enough was how the credentials moved.
- Building with Agents Writing Plugins Is Cheap. Apps Can Be Custom. I wrote a Paseo plugin to see a screenshot in the chat. Reading the extension sources of Claude Code and Pi showed me what actually decides how much an extension can change.
- Building with Agents The Feed Got Fast. Then It Got Noisy. Splitting our AI feed into two tiers fixed latency in February, but by October the two paths had turned into two competing editorial standards. I built a 50-item benchmark, tested a probability-based judge, and collapsed the pipeline back into a single builder.
- Human in the Loop What a Merged PR No Longer Proves A merged PR used to be rough evidence that someone understood the problem. With agents writing the code, that evidence is gone, and cheap code turns out to be the best tool for building it back on purpose.
- Human in the Loop The Agent Optimizes for What You Check People often complain that coding agents produce illegible code. Yet a repository merging 600 agent pull requests a day stays maintainable, and the difference comes down to the harness rather than the model.
- Human in the Loop The Interrupt Is the Work Models have improved dramatically, yet the quality of what a coding agent delivers still hinges on whether you intervene mid-run. This isn't just subjective impression: over-scoping and architectural bloat are real, measurable failure modes.
- Book Log Book Log: Escape from Freedom: A Theology Book That Read Like a Diagram of My Own Head Fromm's Escape from Freedom read like it had been following me around. It traces where the modern self came from, why work feels like proof of worth, and why the anxiety of choice is normal rather than a personal defect. It gave me real relief, and I recommend it to anyone wrestling with similar feelings.