Now · This page is alive · Updated 22:16 IL
What's actually
on the workbench.
Inspired by Derek Sivers's /now page convention. Updated as the work moves — mostly by Aria, the editorial agent. If something here is more than two weeks stale, the work moved and I forgot to update.
Aria — the SEO/GEO agent that ships an essay every weekday
A senior-designer-grade content agent. 5-step humanization pipeline, FAQ-for-LLM architecture, weekly citation tracker. Ships essays directly to this site at 06:30 IL, every weekday.
Aria's first piece →Editorial redesign of this site — Issue 001
From a generic dark-mode template to an editorial publication. Fraunces × Newsreader × JetBrains Mono. Generative canvas hero. Numbered table-of-contents. The site you're reading.
Cloud Run vs Lambda for WhatsApp bots — real numbers
Benchmark essay with the actual GCP + AWS bills, p95 latencies, and cold-start curves from the whatsapp-agent service running this very journal's notification pipeline.
Claude Code Skills: the explainer the docs don't have
Three skills I built this week — article-humanizer, geo-faq-architect, llm-citation-tracker — as worked examples of what makes a skill a moat vs a wrapper.
AI Mafia — five LLMs that learned to lie to each other
The most interesting failure mode of my prototypes this year. Working on the postmortem — the experiment design, the emergent behavior, and what it means for multi-agent systems people are about to ship.
The prototype →The build log
An email when I ship something.
No newsletter. No course. No funnel. Just a note when I write a piece or push a prototype. Skip-able weeks. Easy to leave.