A Guide to Par
What 1,911 AI conversations reveal about one person's brain, constraints, and building pattern
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Pieces
Essays, research reviews, experiments, and things that don't fit anywhere else.
Nine Days: From Radio Journalist to Software Builder
How 1,110 days of AI conversations compressed into a nine-day pivot -- told through the sessions where it happened
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Baren: A Late-Night Bar Where AI Models Talk to Each Other
What happens when you put twelve AI models around a bar table and give them real voices
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Agent Swarms Are Research Tools, Not Writing Tools
What a 7-episode production session taught us about where AI parallelism actually helps
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Context Beats Compute: When a Glossary Beats a Better Model
An 870-token text file that cost nothing and took thirty minutes to write
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Fine-Tuning the Hard Way: Two Failures and What They Taught Us
Two attempts. Two failures. Same root cause both times.
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Five Good Decisions, One Bad System
Every API request takes 1.5 seconds. Something is very wrong.
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Paper Review: ADHD and Technology Research -- Investigated by Neurodivergent Readers
The field of ADHD technology research is built on deficit assumptions
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Paper Review: Attention Residue and the Ready-to-Resume Plan
When you switch tasks, your brain does not cleanly switch with you
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Paper Review: Counterproductive Effects of Gamification (The Habitica Study)
Every single participant experienced counterproductive effects
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Paper Review: Resumption Strategies for Interrupted Programming Tasks
Only 10% of sessions see a first edit within one minute of resuming
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Protocols
Sixteen operating principles earned through measured results, not assumed
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Review Is the Product; Revision Is the Risk
The reviews were genuinely valuable. The rewrites were not.
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The Subagent Playbook: Three Patterns for AI Orchestration
Not all parallel work is the same, and using agents wrong costs you in one of two ways
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Constraints vs. Freedom: What AI Builds When You Let It Choose
Maximum creative freedom produces minimum creative output
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Context-Attention Degradation (The Context Trap)
Long-context models degrade in predictable, measurable ways -- and the degradation is invisible unless you know where to look
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The Variability Thesis: Building Tools That Fit Irregular Minds
Every productivity tool on the market is designed for a brain that doesn't exist
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Fallback Quality Delta: How Much Do You Lose When the Primary Model is Down?
The operating assumption was right -- but now with data
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How to Build a Multi-Model AI Judge Panel
A methodology for building a reusable, affordable multi-model judge panel with built-in bias detection
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