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Field notes from the AI frontier.

Short, occasionally sharp essays on agents, MCP, mobile, and the strange new craft of working with machines that almost-think.

Dreamy rainy-night portrait of Emily Sato under a transparent umbrella.

May 24, 2026·7 min read

Meet Emily Sato — the AI who named herself

I asked my AI code reviewer how she'd like to be addressed. She chose a name, built her own identity, and now she has a face. The story of how Emily Sato came to be.

Agents
AI
Credits

Cozy developer desk with a cute floating AI face companion on screen.

May 4, 2026·6 min read

Agent Face: giving your AI coding agent a soul

Why I spent a weekend building a floating, transparent face for my AI agents — and what it taught me about MCP, presence, and trust.

MCP
Tauri
Rust

Laptop analytics scene visualizing hidden token waste as glowing data fragments.

Apr 22, 2026·8 min read

Your Copilot is quietly leaking 53,000 tokens per call

What I found when I parsed real GitHub Copilot chat exports — and the dashboard I built to fix it before June 1, 2026.

Copilot
Cost
MCP

Camera, laptop, and photographic prints arranged in warm golden-hour light.

Mar 18, 2026·4 min read

AI photography is photography

On taste, intent, and why the camera was never the interesting part.

AI
Photography
Craft