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The Missing Link Was My Phone
Connecting my phone to Grok Bot brought reminders into my daily notes. The requested updates work. The nightly automation still has to prove itself.
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Claude and Cody Can Ask Each Other
I asked Cody, my collaborator in OpenAI’s Codex, whether Claude Code could consult it for a second opinion. Both are AI assistants I use to work directly with files on my computer. Once that route worked, I asked for the reverse: could Cody consult Claude? That became two custom skills in my Obsidian notes vault:…
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What Survived 90 Days of AI Use
On September 11, I built and tested a negotiation-prep skill against two fictional situations. It became Day 090 when I closed the missing log entry two days later. The Outcome field says Worked. The Reusable field says Needs refinement. I haven’t used it for a real negotiation. That split is the clearest result of the…
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The Rule Didn’t Force the Check
On July 27 I told my AI operator to open today’s notes. It launched Obsidian. What I meant was create the Markdown files for the day and start filling them in. The clarification took ten seconds. It’s recorded in that day’s learning entry under “Human corrections required,” and it’s why I started questioning where responsible…
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You Can’t Ask a Tool If You Still Need It
A tool can make a persuasive case for keeping itself without bias. The problem is the important context it cannot see.
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NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook. The Boundary Matters More Than the Name.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and connected it more closely to Gemini. The useful question is whether the source boundary remains visible.
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Complexity Signals the Unresolved
I had fourteen AI agents, and I couldn’t decide which ones to cut. I’d built each one for a reason. Research, writing, editing, coaching, Obsidian vault management, code, distribution, travel. Every agent had a brief and a defined role. The system still felt oversized. Two more AI models had joined the workflow. Several roles overlapped.…
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GPT-5.6 Sol Got Its Own Release Wrong. That Was the Useful Part.
I asked GPT-5.6 Sol to suggest three AI-learning activities I could finish in under five minutes. It ran a web search to ground the suggestions and came back with a warning: GPT-5.6 was still in preview and unavailable in ChatGPT. There was one problem. I was already using it. The model had found an official…
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What 30 Days of AI Use Actually Changed
The experiment started badly. On Day 1, I built an Obsidian plugin for the AI Learning Path. The plugin worked. The logging habit didn’t. I missed the first entry and had to recover it the next day through a structured interview. That was the first useful signal. The failure wasn’t model quality. It was system…
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The Website Started in the Vault
Claude didn’t start my website redesign by asking what color I liked. It started from the vault. That matters because most AI-assisted design work begins in the wrong place. You give the model a vague brief, and it gives you something that looks like every other portfolio site: gradient background, soft cards, oversized hero claim,…
