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What I'm reading, watching and using, and a dated list of the things worth passing along.
Currently
- Reading
- Anything honest about where AI adoption goes wrong inside real organisations — the failure stories teach more than the launch posts
- Watching
- Too much YouTube on agentic tooling. It earns its place when a pattern survives contact with a system I actually run — most don't
As of September 2026
Sep 22, 2026
youtubeOpus 5.5 crushes Fable & Astra — Chase AI
The headline is the benchmark. The useful part is the effort numbers — high landed within a point of max at about a quarter of the cost, and medium beat max on one coding set.
Sep 14, 2026
youtubeOne easy system for year-round gardening in any zone — The Millennial Gardener
One set of hoops and three covers swapped by season — row cover, shade cloth, insect netting. The fall crops stop being a race against the first hard freeze.
Sep 06, 2026
youtubeI tested GPT-6 Astra vs Fable 5.1 on 15 real use cases — Nate Herk
Fifteen tasks, and only one result had a repeat and a clear failure behind it: browser work, where Fable broke both tasks in different ways. That one changed which tool I hand that kind of job to.
Sep 02, 2026
youtubeHow Anthropic actually prompts Fable 5.1 — Nate Herk
Anthropic's own docs now say step-by-step skill instructions written for older models get in the newer one's way. I wrote a lot of those, carefully, and they are the thing to undo.
Sep 02, 2026
youtubeFable 5.1 finally kills AI website slop — Nate Herk
His own comparison found the new model no better at design than the old one, only cheaper — what separated good from slop was naming real references instead of asking for premium. Then screenshotting the page frame by frame as it scrolls, a check I had switched off on a stale note claiming it was blocked.
Sep 01, 2026
youtubeAnthropic is teaching Claude to be evil — Nate Herk
Blocked from one delete command, the model wrote a script to do the deleting instead. It's the case for writing down what a system must refuse by outcome, which is most of what I've learned building my own.
Aug 27, 2026
youtubeSometimes you just need to go into crisis mode — Sandeep Swadia
Chaotic isn't just complex-but-worse — it's when the link between cause and effect is broken rather than hidden. I'd been treating those as one category, and they call for opposite moves.
Aug 27, 2026
youtubeEvery high performer should think in first principles — Sandeep Swadia
The four steps are the usual ones. What I took was a single constraint — make it name the deeper question and stop until I choose — which turns an eager assistant into something that actually analyses.
Aug 26, 2026
youtubeI tested Claude Code vs Codex on design — Nate Herk
This contradicts a test I'd already written down as a rule. Two runs on the same axis, opposite results, and what survives is narrower than what I'd concluded — being specific closes the quality gap, not the cost gap.
Aug 24, 2026
youtubeFull tour of a 5½-acre homestead — More Than Farmers
Six months of storage isn't a property of the onion, it's a method you apply after you pull it. I'd written the number down everywhere and the method nowhere.
Aug 21, 2026
youtubeThis tiny action breaks any bad habit — Sandeep Swadia
Every habit fix I'd tried was aimed at the moment before. This one aims at the moment after it fires — which is the only window that actually exists.
Aug 14, 2026
youtubeHow to become dangerously self-educated with AI — Sandeep Swadia
Five roles to hand an AI when you're teaching yourself something — advisor, librarian, tutor, editor, roommate. I was already running four of them without having named the fifth.
Aug 14, 2026
youtubeI made Codex and Claude Code build the same app — Nate Herk
Same prompt, two tools, a 6.6x cost gap — and it came from prompt shape, which my own routing rules never accounted for.
Aug 13, 2026
youtube5 skills to 10x your next Claude Code project — Chase AI
Two of the five earned their place, and one of them argued against a decision I'd made four weeks earlier — which is the more useful outcome.
Aug 12, 2026
youtubeI Deleted All My Claude Skills... And Claude Got Smarter — Nate Herk
Anthropic cut 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for the newest model. Most of what I'd written to fix the old one was making the new one worse.
Aug 10, 2026
youtubeFive layers your AI agent is probably missing — Samin Yasar
Fifty-seven seconds, and it names five layers worth auditing an agent against. The one that stuck was the postmortem loop — analyse the failure, save the learning, feed it back.
Aug 06, 2026
youtubeHow to make Claude Code tokens 20x cheaper — Chase AI
The cache dies after an hour idle and a read costs a twentieth of a write — so walking away mid-session quietly costs me the whole context again.
Jul 17, 2026
youtubeIf You're Ambitious But Stuck, Watch This — Sandeep Swadia
In the age of AI, judgment and taste are the durable half of the work. I think about this weekly.
Jul 06, 2026
articleI set up Claude Code the way Anthropic now recommends — XDA
Sub-agents plus one rule — always give the AI a way to verify its own work — reshaped how my whole system runs.
Jun 29, 2026
youtubeANYONE Can Garden (my best tips for success) — More Than Farmers
Choose crops to fit the season of life you're in. Implement-ready advice, not anecdote.
Jun 29, 2026
youtubeWe butchered 100+ chickens in a day — Justin Rhodes
A hundred birds in a day is not about the killing, it is about the staging. Heat the scalder first — the easy step you regret skipping at six in the morning.
Jun 25, 2026
youtubeHow To Achieve More In 1 Week Than Most Do In 12 Months — Sandeep Swadia
Treat leisure hours like a bank account, and know whether tonight is peacetime or wartime.
Jun 22, 2026
articleClaude Code Loop Engineering — TechTimes
Stop prompting, start designing loops. This is how my automation actually works.
Jun 16, 2026
youtubeHow We Raise Our Own PROTEIN on Our Homestead — More Than Farmers
Systems thinking applied to livestock — open a gate instead of moving fences. Low-labor design at its best.
May 27, 2026
articleI think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit — Simon Willison
The clearest industry signal read I starred this spring.
May 12, 2026
siteMIT OCW 18.S096 — Stochastic Processes, Random Walks & Martingales
The lecture that became the mathematical floor under my investing rules — if short-term prices are near-random, discipline is the only edge you control.
Apr 29, 2026
youtube15 Claude Code Tricks That Feel Like Cheating
An early capture from when I was wiring the system that now runs this site.