ai-native
The thesis. What it means to build around AI, not just use AI.
- EssayMemory that sleeps: a tiered memory architecture with daily consolidationA two-tier retrieval system (semantic plus keyword), canonical topic files as curated truth, and a nightly consolidation pass that promotes session insights into the canonical tier. Why each piece exists and what fails without it.
- StoryThe hackathon that started it allA one-day hackathon in February 2026, a merchant-risk problem I had been looking at for a year, and a pipeline that scanned 30,000 websites in an afternoon. The origin of everything else on this site.
- EssayA personal AI operating environment: worked example and receiptsWhat happens when one person uses an AI coding assistant as the primary interface to a real physical and operational life, and systematically fixes every failure that occurs along the way.
- EssayThree-way AI model debate as a pre-commit gate: receipts from several months of useRunning Claude, Gemini and GPT-5.4 on the same question in parallel, blind Round 0, informed from Round 1 onward. What works, what does not, and the confidence trap I did not predict.
- EssayWhat it means to be AI-nativeThe difference between using AI a lot and being AI-native: infrastructure as the binding constraint, not model capability.