Recent Posts
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Clumsy Engineers Will Just Become Clumsy People Nobody Wants to Work With
AI is a mirror of the person using it, and all it does is multiply your own ability. Clumsy engineers who leaned on their technical skills will be replaced by people who can give clear instructions and verify the output. This is about whether you can use AI like a trusted subordinate.
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Use Autonomous Agents Dots and Grok Bot for Different Jobs
List prices are flat at $2 per million tokens. With models no longer setting them apart, AI companies are locking customers in with conditional discounts and always-on agents. This is about how I split my AI by direction to avoid being locked in, and what I pay every month.
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Is an AI Skill a Manual or a Professional's Judgment? Thoughts on the Agent Skills Donation
Anthropic has donated Agent Skills to AAIF, a foundation under the Linux Foundation. It can't be pure goodwill, and skills aren't automatically an asset. But I think the answer changes depending on whether you read a skill as an instruction manual or as how a professional behaves.
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Let AI Replace Engineers. The Real Job Was Never the Code
I think it's fine for engineers to be replaced by AI. An engineer's essence isn't in the program, and neither building systems nor running them is the essence of my work. While having AI write all of my code, I came to think the real job is solving someone's problem.
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The Philippine Central Bank Hiked Rates, and the Peso Hit a Record Low the Same Day (Oct 22)
On October 22, the day the BSP (the Philippine central bank) raised rates by 0.5 points, the peso hit a record low of 63.52 to the dollar while the yen climbed to ₱4,044 per ¥10,000. What it means for currency exchange and prices when you earn in yen and live in pesos.
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How I Get an Automatic AI News Briefing Every Morning Without Paying for the X API
Without the paid X API, I get an AI news briefing delivered automatically every morning at 7:17, using the free public-post reads built into Grok Bot (up to 30 per minute and 1,000 per day). Here's how it works and the limits I ran into.
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My Japanese ID Card Sat at the Embassy for 2 Months While the Official Tracker Said "Being Issued"
If you live abroad and are waiting for a My Number card (Japan's national ID card), the official status page can say "being issued" while the card is already at the embassy. How an email to my ward office revealed it had arrived on August 12, and what to check.
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I Let AI Shop for Nespresso Pods. The Cheapest Flavor Expired in 3 Days
I let AI handle everything from comparing Nespresso-compatible capsules up to just before checkout, and the cheapest one, Colombia, would have expired before it arrived. Here are the Japan vs. Philippines price comparison and how I split the work when AI shops for me (I type the CVV myself).
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I Built a Market Price Site Without Writing a Line of Code. The AI Mistook Eggplant for Eggs, and I Nearly Misread a Correlation
I had AI (opencode and Muse) build Presyo Bantay, a site that turns the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) price PDFs into Metro Manila market price charts with USD/PHP correlations, without writing a line of code myself. Imported rice in Las Piñas tracked USD/PHP with a 1–2 week lag at r=+0.92.
